Upverter Launches Next Generation Hardware Design & Development Platform
Upverter Open to All Developers and Electronics Designers; Addition of Faster Net Routing and Symbol Editor Features Enable Developers to Develop Next Generation Hardware in the Upverter Platform

TORONTO, ON; September 12, 2011 - Upverter, the Software as a Service (SaaS) for rapid hardware design, today announced it has exited private beta and is now available for use by developers and electronics designers building next generation hardware worldwide. In addition, the company is announcing a new set of integration tool; enabling faster net routing, in tool annotations and symbol editor’s. Upverter currently supports collaborative schematic capture, community part maintenance and ways to share and embed schematics much like YouTube videos. Developers can start using Upverter today for free by signing up at http://upverter.com.

Upverter solves a critical problem that has constrained hardware designers for decades. Traditionally, workflow was isolated and siloed, with each designer working on a single design and producing it almost entirely from scratch. As a result, most companies couldn’t move any faster, they couldn’t put more people onto a project, and they lost a tremendous amount of time to duplicated effort. For these companies, leveraging innovations in silicon, or producing bigger designs was simply not possible.

Upverter's platform enables developers to reach market faster, through reuse and collaboration. No more duplication of effort, no more siloed designs, no more isolated developers. More importantly, designs developed in Upverter are integrated tightly with the complete hardware workflow solving some of the part-sourcing and manufacturing problems. As a result, companies are now able to get product out the door faster and take on bigger and riskier projects with smaller teams and cost.

"Hardware design has a tremendous impact on our lives, yet most of it is still done using the same tools and the same design workflow invented in the 80’s, “ said Zak Homuth, co-founder and CEO of Upverter. “With Upverter, electronic design is taking a huge stride forward -- for the first time, design teams are enabled to move faster together, while enabling reuse at the community level.”

With this release, Upverter has added two new features: Faster net routing, speeding the net routing up 100x, and a symbol Editor, allowing you to add multiple symbols to a component, and customize the pin layout.

“One of the biggest obstacles to hardware development is the lack of good tools to allow collaboration between designers in the community, as well as a lack of circuit design tools that are easy to set up and use. Upverter is solving these problems.”
Juan Fantin, Hardware Engineer

Upverter is free for developers. For more pricing information, visit http://www.upverter.com.

About Upverter:
Upverter is a second-generation software-as-a-service company that lets you rapidly design hardware. Unlike existing design tools, which are isolated and single user, Upverter is highly integrated, inherently collaborative and accessible anywhere in the world. With Upverter design teams, contract designers and grassroots innovators can now leverage existing design content and focus on building next generation hardware instead of wasting time duplicating work, sourcing parts, or dealing with manufacturers. Based in Toronto and funded by YCombinator, Upverter was founded by Zak Homuth, Stephen Hamer and Michael Woodworth in 2010. For more information on Upverter, visit www.upverter.com.