CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 September 2008
Product News
Zuken Opens Access and Gives Control to Users of Latest Version of CR-5000
The newly released Version 11 of CR-5000 mirrors Zuken’s business strategy of solid development for a long-term future. The focus of this version is to launch the new Dragon Router while opening up the tool suite to allow more designers to access additional functions across the full environment without having to purchase full licenses of add-on tools.
“We identified that opening access to our cutting-edge technology to a broader segment of users and improving cross-tool integration is critical to enabling our customers to improve design efficiency – a key reason why this is the focus for CR-5000 11,” said Global Development Manager, Kazuhiro Kariya.
CR-5000 Lightning Unleashes the Power of the Dragon, taking the stress out of routing
The Dragon is here. This brand new intelligent autorouting solution combines intelligence and a methodology-driven approach that guides the user through the right-first-time creation of high-speed boards in shorter time frames.
To automate the process even further, a sophisticated new automatic floorplanning tool, directly linked to CR-5000 System Designer design capture, is available with CR-5000 Lightning 11. Design engineers can floorplan boards without the need for accessing a complex PCB layout tool.
Signal integrity analysis accuracy has been enhanced to consider effects of arbitrary power and ground conductors anywhere in the layer stack. This kind of analysis is essential when more intricate signal transmission techniques such as coplanar waveguides are used. A powerful new multiple-parameter sweep analysis has been added, enabling design engineers and PCB designers to easily optimize high-speed net topologies.
CR-5000 System Designer – for tighter control at the schematic level
For the design engineer, Zuken focuses on providing more control. CR-5000 System Designer provides major improvements in constraints to support PCB design. Relative skew, important for source-synchronous technologies such as DDR memory, can be entered without requiring additional software licences. This helps users to front-load electrical constraint management, eliminating unnecessary redesign work further down the line.
CR-5000 Board Designer – opens the door to new CR-5000 technology
PCB designers gain significantly with version 11 in the area of routing, which includes the integration of Zuken’s Trunk Router*. Other enhancements facilitate more effective use of downstream tools. For example, the ability to insert 45-degree angle pin exit directions upfront within Board Designer eliminates the need to manually modify exit directions later within CR-5000 Lightning.
Another significant area of development focus was the increasingly necessary differential pair. Per-layer track-to-track spacing can now be specified within CR-5000 Board Designer, allowing the designer to control signal integrity more effectively and define constraints earlier in the design cycle.
CR-5000 Version 11 also takes a big step forward in version management. Users can now make comparisons between two different PCBs and generate reports detailing variations, providing complete ECO (electronic change order) details with no manual effort.
The PCB designer can now access assembly rules and perform checks against the board without having to use a separate tool to report the errors, for a more integrated approach. This means that everyone with Board Designer can achieve far more reliable designs without the time and effort involved in extensive design rework.
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