Colorado Springs, Colo., September 21, 2000 - Altia meets the engineering and development needs of large companies by porting to the IBM RS6000. When businesses choose to use the IBM RS6000 with AIX as their operating system, they realize the need for a design tool that works in this environment. Altia Design and Altia FacePlate now offer them a solution for creating simulation graphics and interactive virtual prototypes on the IBM RS6000.

Altia's two programs, Altia Design and FacePlate, enable developers to create interactive animated graphics without programming. They reduce the time required to bring products to market by enhancing communication among design team members, senior managers, and customers working on the same project. They also assist with debugging, optimizing and regression testing. The software seamlessly connects to all leading system simulation tools and programming languages.

About Altia 
Four Hewlett Packard embedded systems developers discovered a customer need for host-based graphics tools to prototype instrumentation front panels. These engineers founded the privately held Altia, Inc. in 1991.

Altia's primary mission is to enhance the value of system simulation tools by expanding markets for these products through development of simulation graphics software. More than 1,500 licenses of the company's flagship product, Altia Design, have been sold worldwide, while the need for graphics software in embedded systems development continues to expand rapidly.

Altia, Inc. is located at 5030 Corporate Plaza Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80919. Tel: 719-598-4299, Fax: 719-598-4392, Web: www.altia.com.