Older Press Releases

• Altia’s HMI Tools Selected by Altera for Use in the PARIS Automotive Infotainment Development Platform
  March 31, 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