San Diego, Calif. – April 25, 2017 - Altium today announced a cooperation agreement with Canada based Neutron Controls to combine its design services and know-how around Infineon related applications with the compiler centric tool offerings from TASKING to serve customers in the North American embedded industry with a more complete offering.

Design House Services for AURIXTM

As a Preferred Design House for AURIX Neutron Controls offers both consulting and engineering support, specialized in applications built on and around Infineon’s AURIX™ TriCore™ based Microcontroller platforms.

Compiler centric tools with leading performance

Through the agreement, Neutron Controls will be able to provide extended services to the market by including the TASKING compilers and compiler centric tools to their portfolio. The TASKING VX-toolset for TriCore/AURIX is recognized in its user base to deliver best performance in terms of speed and memory footprint. The recent ASPICE Level 2 certification of the development processes and safety related tools like TASKING Safety Checker for test against freedom from interference are well recognized in the TASKING use base, especially in safety and ADAS related areas.

“Through the close cooperation with TASKING as the Embedded Systems Division of Altium, our customers will benefit from the extended service portfolio we provide to the market,” says Dave Stubbs, President of Neutron Controls, “While tools like the TASKING AURIX Configuration Tools make it easier for customers to get a headstart into the AURIX platform, we will be able to offer help and training around safety and performance related topics.”

Franz Maidl, Director Global TASKING Business adds “The cooperation with Neutron Controls as a Preferred Design House for AURIX and well recognized expert for embedded solutions in the North American market provides customers of Infineon's AURIX platform a competitive advantage in getting up to speed with their new applications faster and maximise the performance of their hardware through both best tools and services.”

Infineon Automotive Multi-core Developer Conference

Both Altium and Neutron Controls will be present at the Automotive Multi-core developer conference hosted by Infineon Technologies on April 25-27, 2017 in Detroit, MI, to discuss multi-core challenges in the automotive field and to present new innovative TASKING solutions to cope with multi-core and the performance needs of ADAS applications.

About Neutron Controls

Neutron Controls is offering Premium Engineering Service in support of the Infineon AURIX controller for North America and is staffed with an Elite Team of engineers that have servicing the Embedded and Automotive sectors for over 20 years.

About TASKING

TASKING is an Altium brand. TASKING development tools are used by carmakers and the world's largest automotive Tier-1 suppliers to program microcontroller based power train, body control and safety related applications around the globe. More than ten thousand users rely on the TASKING compilers and debuggers to create richer next-generation applications while achieving optimum reliability, security, and performance. TASKING compilers are also part of Altium Designer and installed on hundreds of thousands of developer’s desktops around the globe. In 2012 the TASKING brand celebrated its 35-years anniversary of technology leadership, quality tools and customer support excellence.

About Altium

Altium Limited (ASX: ALU) is a multinational software corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, that focuses on electronics design systems for 3D PCB design and embedded system development. Altium products are found everywhere from world leading electronic design teams to the grassroots electronic design community.

With a unique range of technologies Altium helps organisations and design communities to innovate, collaborate and create connected products while remaining on-time and on-budget. Products provided are Altium Designer®, Altium Vault®, CircuitStudio®, PCBWorks®, CircuitMaker® and the TASKING® range of embedded software compilers.

Founded in 1985, Altium has offices worldwide, with US locations in San Diego and Boston, European locations in Karlsruhe, Amersfoort, Kiev and Zug and Asia-Pacific locations in Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney. For more information, visit www.altium.com. You can also follow and engage with Altium via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.