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  • Altia Announces Graphical User Interface Development Support for Renesas RX600 Microcontrollers
    February 25, 2013
    Altia DeepScreen Code Generator Now Supports Latest Renesas Microcontroller, the RX600 Series

  • Altia Announces Graphical User Interface Development Support for Freescale’s New i.MX 6 Series Processors
    November 27, 2012
    Altia Announces Graphical User Interface Development Support for Freescale's New i.MX 6 Series Processors

  • Altia Releases Altia Design 10.2
    August 22, 2012
    Altia’s New Release Offers New Features and More DeepScreen Code Generation Targets for Embedded User Interfaces

  • Altia Announced as the Automotive User Interface Development Tool Select Partner for New Freescale Vybrid™ Automotive Solution
    June 21, 2012
    New Freescale Vybrid™ Automotive Solution announced at 2012 Freescale Technology Forum

  • Altia Unveils Nationwide ‘2012 GUI Design Contest’
    January 11, 2012
    Grand Prize includes $2000 scholarship plus paid internship with Altia

  • Altia Releases Altia Design 10.1 with New DeepScreen Targets and More
    November 29, 2011
    New Altia Release Includes Expanded Target Support and Bug Fixes

  • Altia President to Speak at IBM Rational Systems and Software Engineering Symposium
    October 5, 2011
    Peter Abowd to Discuss Secrets to Getting High Impact User Interfaces into Production Embedded Devices

  • Altia User Experience Director to Present at IUE2011
    September 20, 2011
    Steve Tengler to Discuss “The Evolving Interface” at Upcoming Internet User Experience Conference

  • Altia Overhauls Web Experience
    August 24, 2011
    Altia’s Award-winning Interface Tools Have a Brand New Showcase on the Web

  • Altia Announces New Release: Design 10
    August 16, 2011
    Award-winning user interface development kit offers enhanced collaboration and new improvements to boost productivity

  • Altia to Present at Automotive Interiors Expo 2011
    May 3, 2011
    Altia Representative to Discuss the Value of Future Studies for Automotive HMI Business Strategy

  • Altia to Participate in Ward’s Auto Interiors Conference
    April 26, 2011
    User Experience Director to Represent Altia in "A Fresh Look at the HMI and Center Stack" Panel

  • Altia Welcomes Industry-Renowned User Experience Director
    March 16, 2011
    Altia announces the appointment of new Director of User Experience, Steve Tengler

  • Altia Showcases User Interface Engineering Tools at embedded world 2011
    February 15, 2011
    Company President, Senior Application Engineer to Present at Embedded Systems Event in Nuremburg, Germany

  • Altia Announces New Releases of Award-Winning HMI Development Tools
    February 14, 2011
    New Altia Releases Include Expanded Target Support, Enhanced Features and More

  • Altia Honored with 2010 Celebrate Technology Award
    January 26, 2011
    Company named Information and Communication Technology Company of the Year

  • Altia Adds Director of Sales for New England
    October 19, 2010
    Altia is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Director of Sales for New England, Brian Hancock.

  • Altia Discusses Low Cost Graphics Hardware Options in Embedded Computing Design
    September 8, 2010
    Select Sprite or GPU? Which cheap chip will work for your product?

  • Altia and Animated Media Partner to Offer Flash Solutions
    June 28, 2010
    HMI Engineering Tools Will Soon Integrate with Innovative Flash Platform

  • Altia CEO Discusses Graphical Code Generators on Electronic Design
    May 18, 2010
    Altia Proposes Graphical Code Generators as Key to Pairing Best GUI to Lowest-Cost Hardware

  • Altia Executive Contributor to New SAE J2746 Software Assessment Repository
    March 22, 2010
    SAE International Initiates Automotive Software Repository Program Enabling Suppliers and OEM’s to Share Software Development Capabilities

  • Altia Announces New Corporate Blog Site
    February 23, 2010
    Blog Launched to Connect Altia to the Global Embedded Electronics Community

  • Altia Launches New Web Experience
    February 9, 2010
    Altia’s User Interface Engineering Tools Have a Brand New Showcase on the Web

  • Altia Releases Altia Design 9.0 User Interface Design Tool
    February 2, 2010
    Development teams can take advantage of Altia’s new features to create exciting user interfaces in a fraction of the time.

  • Ford Fiesta Coming to US Shores – with Altia HMI on Board
    December 2, 2009
    Ford’s Newest Car Will Make Big Splash with Altia-Generated Center Stack

  • Altia to Discuss Rapid Prototyping at ARM Conference
    October 2, 2009
    Altia Engineer to Outline the Benefits of Code Generation in New Product Development at ARM Techcon3

  • Altia Executive to Speak at the IAA SVOX Forum 09
    September 3, 2009
    Altia to Discuss User-Focused Product Development at September 2009 Automotive Conference

  • Developers Use Altia to Mock Up Product Simulations with Realistic Hardware Controls
    June 12, 2009
    Altia HMI Plugs in to Off-the-Shelf Components for Testing and Reviews

  • Altia Executive To Participate in AutomotiveUI 2009
    May 6, 2009
    Conference to Discuss Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

  • Embedded Computing Design© Showcases Altia® HMI in March 2009 Issue
    April 14, 2009
    Altia is “Ingenuity @ Work”

  • Altia HMI Selected for Motor-Control IP Solutions
    March 30, 2009
    Home-Appliance Developers Can Design High-End Touch Screens Without the Need for Separate GUI Programming

  • Altia Announces New HMI Tools for “Energy Aware” Home Appliance Platform
    March 27, 2009
    Altia Provides Custom GUIs without Programming Graphics

  • Altia Partners with Michigan Tech Student Group for Aerospace Competition
    March 23, 2009
    Michigan Tech Students Use Altia HMI Software for NanoSat Project

  • Altia HMI Gives Ford Fiesta the Winning Edge
    March 17, 2009
    Impressive Center Stack Displays Run By Altia-Generated Graphics Code

  • ARM Demos Altia at Embedded World 2009
    February 23, 2009
    The Powerful Combination of Altia's Tool Chain and ARM IP To Be Showcased

  • Altia Adds European Senior Applications Engineer
    January 20, 2009
    Senior Applications Engineer to Support Altia’s European Automotive Market

  • Toshiba Selects Altia HMI Tools for their Capricorn Devices
    August 7, 2008
    Altia’s Human Machine Interface Software Enables Advanced Graphics on Toshiba’s Automotive System-On-Chip (SoC) Processors

  • Altia’s HMI Tools Selected by Altera for Use in the PARIS Automotive Infotainment Development Platform
    May 23, 2008
    Altia’s Human Machine Interface Software Brings Advanced Graphics to Automotive Electronics Systems Designers

  • OpenGL ES® Target for DeepScreen Released!
    February 7, 2008
    Altia announces the release of the OpenGL ES code generator for its GUI development tools.

  • Altia Adds New President of Worldwide Automotive
    January 15, 2008
    Altia is extremely pleased and proud to announce the appointment of our new President of Worldwide Automotive, Peter Abowd.

  • Version 1.05 of PhotoProto Just Released!
    May 1, 2007
    Altia announces the release of a much improved version of PhotoProto that runs 2000% faster than previous versions!

  • Altia Opens UK Office to Serve Europe and Scandinavia
    January 26, 2007
    The explosion of user interface development needs prompts Altia to open a direct office to provide European customers immediate access to Altia's technical and sales team.

  • Altia Announces the Release of DeepScreen 5.0
    November 13, 2006
    New release enhances alpha blending, provides multi-thread support and improves target code generation for X11 and Linux.

  • Altia Announces PhotoProto 1.0 Release
    September 12, 2006
    Product designers save significant time and expense by minimizing complex multimedia authoring and programming. Market-winning, user-friendly products get to customers in a fraction of the time.

  • Altia Announces Altia Design 8.0 User Interface Design Tools
    February 20, 2006
    Systems engineers take advantage of Altia’s significant usability upgrade to create real-time user interfaces in a fraction of the time.

  • Altia announces 32-bit graphics support
    September 20, 2005
    Altia announced today the upcoming release of Altia Design 7.0, which will contain full 32-bit graphics support. This enables .png file alpha channels, and a per object opacity setting.

  • Altia introduces XML support in Altia Design
    September 7, 2005
    Altia announced today the release of new XML import and export support within Altia Design.

  • Audi selects Altia’s GUI Tools for A8 and A6 In-Dash Display Development
    July 12, 2004
    Altia’s prototyping and development tools help improve quality and decrease the time needed to develop information displays for the A8.

  • Safety-Critical Development Environment Couples with Leading Graphics Development Tool
    May 10, 2004
    Esterel Technologies and Altia Inc. announce the release of the SCADE/Altia Design Gateway

  • Fiat Chooses Altia’s Graphics Tools for Automotive Electronic System Design
    April 14, 2004
    Fiat uses new tools and methods to design automotive electronic systems. Altia is selected as a key technology to help significantly decrease development times and cost.

  • Altia Announces the Release of DeepScreen 3.0
    July 1, 2003
    Altia, Inc., announces the release of DeepScreen 3.0. Altia DeepScreen is a graphics code generator that converts prototype GUIs built on a development host into deployable C code that runs on an embedded target.

  • L’ONERA chose Altia Design to develop a human-machine interface for controlling helicopter drones
    October 24, 2002
    L’ONERA, National Office of Aerospace Studies and Research in Paris, France, chose to use Altia Design to construct the cockpit prototype for a helicopter drone.

  • Altia Announces the Release of Altia Design 5.0
    July 1, 2002
    Altia announces the release of Altia Design 5.0. Four new features enhance Altia's virtual prototyping tool: an object browser, support for transparent backgrounds, prebuilt GUI components, and expanded copy and paste functions.

  • Altia DeepScreen Generates Graphics Code for Embedded Linux
    October 23, 2001
    Altia DeepScreen Generates Graphics Code for Embedded Linux. Graphics code generation for embedded, user interface displays saves programmers significant time over hand-coding Linux GUIs.

  • Altia Announces the Release of Altia DeepScreen 1.0
    June 1, 2001
    Altia Announces the Release of Altia DeepScreen 1.0. Graphics code generation for embedded, user interface displays reduces graphics programming time

  • Altia Ports to the IBM RS6000
    September 21, 2000
    Altia ports Altia Design and FacePlate to the AIX operating system of the IBM RS6000.

  • Altia's New Java Connection Provides Virtual Prototyping Over the Internet
    August 17, 2000
    Altia releases a Java connection which provides virtual prototyping over the Internet. Altia's high performance graphics, combined with Java's machine independence and increased security provides a powerful, Web-based simulation and prototyping environment.

  • Altia Announces the Release of Altia Design 4.5
    July 5, 2000
    Altia announces the release of Altia Design 4.5. Enhanced importing and manipulation capabilities for high-resolution bitmaps enables users to create photorealistic, animated virtual prototypes.

  • I-Logix and Altia Agree to Integrate New Altia FacePlate Graphics Software with I-Logix’ Rhapsody and Statemate Magnum Products
    September 28, 1999
    I-Logix and Altia Agree to Integrate New Altia FacePlate Graphics Software with I-Logix’ Rhapsody and Statemate Magnum Products