Īltium Designer brings together hardware, software and programmable hardware design within a single, unified environment. To do this, the engineer needs a design environment that solves the system integration issues – where they can capture the hardware design, write the embedded software for the processor, and implement, test and debug both the hardware and software on the target FPGA. Today these devices now have sufficient capacity to implement more than just some of the hardware in a product – they can be programmed to implement an entire digital system, including the processor, peripheral components and the interface logic - along with the embedded code running on that processor. With their ability to operate at high switching frequencies, FPGAs have provided an ideal platform for implementing large, high speed digital designs, allowing the designer to reduce the size and cost of a product.
Soft design provides the basis for an ecosystem which can connect your customer to you, via your products. This includes the human interface implemented in the soft design. 
Soft design can continue after the product is manufactured and deployed to the end customer. Soft design can happen both before and after the hardware platform is designed. The IP that you program into the system is better protected than physical IP, as the source is not shipped with the product. Some of the key benefits of soft design include: By moving functionality out of the physical domain and into the soft, you can create the device intelligence needed to generate sustainable differentiation of your end product in the market place. Soft design is a term that perfectly encapsulates the soft nature of a design, whose functionality and intelligence is embedded into a high-capacity programmable device. Note - Altium no longer manufactures, nor sells, any of the NanoBoard, Peripheral Board, Daughter Board, or other connected hardware, detailed here.
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