Altium has added a range of board-level components from STMicroelectronics to its online content delivery ecosystem, AltiumLive.
The embedded design platform firm is aiming to build collaborative relationships with component manufacturers and distributors.
Along with device manufacturers such as STMicroelectronics, Altium has also established relationships with parts suppliers and vendors such as Newark, Digi-Key and Mouser.
This allows engineers to get real-time supply-chain information, such as vendor choice, pricing and availability of components as part of the design process.
"We are pleased to be working with companies such as STMicroelectronics to develop an ever increasing range of third party libraries, templates, reference designs and other ready-to-use design content," said Rowland Washington, Content Development Manager for Altium.
The work with STMicroelectronics includes the chip supplier's power management devices. This adds to the STMicroelectronics components already available in AltiumLive's board-level component vault, which include the company's STM8 and STM32 family of microcontrollers, sensors and MEMS-based devices.
"The cooperative relationship between STMicroelectronics and Altium helps both companies deliver high-quality component data into the hand of designers during the critical design development phase," said Bill Raasch, STMicroelectronics VP Product Marketing Smart Power & High Performance Analog.
The new and existing STMicroelectronics components are available online through AltiumLive’s board-level component vault, one of Altium’s managed component repositories of ready-to-use design elements accessible through the AltiumLive portal.
Users can directly access the components and linked supplier information from within Altium Designer, or by browsing to the AltiumLive Design Content area via the web.