CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 September 2004
Product News
ChipData Announces Advanced Schematic And Symbol Conversion Services
ChipData announced the availability of its Schematic and Symbol Conversion Services to help companies migrate their design libraries as a result of mergers, acquisitions, design process standardization, or switching PCB design tools. ChipData's new service offerings allow companies to simply and cost-effectively keep up with changes to their PCB design environment, ultimately preserving the investment in their symbol and schematic libraries and giving them more flexibility in their design processes.
ChipData experts utilize proprietary conversion technology to convert customers' schematics and symbol libraries into a variety of leading EDA formats without losing information. ChipData ensures the integrity of data with advanced QA features that compare source and target graphics and perform syntax and connectivity checks, ultimately validating that the converted symbols and schematics are accurate. ChipData's progressive Conversion Services give organizations a cost and time-effective option to protect their most valuable design assets without tying up skilled internal resources.
To take advantage of ChipData's Schematic Conversion Services, organizations need only supply a compressed file of the source schematic design and symbols used in the design, as well as any special instructions regarding the property name or value mapping that may be required. Although turnaround time depends on the amount of customization required during the conversion process, most conversion projects are completed within two days to two weeks.
"Changes in the design environment are always very disruptive events," said Bob Merlo, ChipData's president and CEO. "One of the biggest challenges during this type of transition is preserving the intellectual property embodied in the legacy symbol and schematic design library. ChipData's Conversion Services offer a sensible alternative for organizations facing this kind of environmental change - whether they are looking to standardize their symbol library or simply use the best CAD tool for the job."
ChipData supports conversion of the following source schematic capture and symbol formats:
• Mentor Graphics-Design Architect, DxDesigner
• Cadence-Concept SCALD, Concept HDL
ChipData can convert schematics or symbols into any of the following target formats:
• Mentor Graphics-DxDesigner
• Cadence-Concept HDL
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