CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 January 2009
Product News
CircuitPlan - New Concept Level Planning Tool Advances Collaboration Between Hardware, PCB, Mechanical And Manufacturing Engineers
DesignAdvance® Systems, Inc. announced CircuitPlan™, an advanced concept level planning tool for the hardware engineer. CircuitPlan provides the industry’s first solution that offers true planning, feasibility and design collaboration from concept level planning through physical design and test.
As a concept level planning tool, CircuitPlan supports full logical and physical hierarchy. CircuitPlan provides a mechanism to begin design by populating preliminary plans with design data, including mechanical, from previous and existing designs or reference boards (both partial or complete netlists). Users can plan with generic or pseudo components and/or CircuitSpace templates. Concurrent syncing with schematic allows the user to replace generic or pseudo components with schematic completed components. Perform ongoing feasibility analysis such as multi-level fit studies, and view both functional and physical design encompassing inter-view connectivity. CircuitPlan imports and exports into IDF and/or leading PCB design flows.
CircuitPlan leverages our industry leading placement automation technologies such as interactive clustering, replication of exact/partial clusters, modification and propagation of design changes and apply templates.
“Our customers have been actively deploying our solutions [CircuitSpace and CircuitProbe] throughout their PCB design process,” stated Mr. Edward Pupa, DesignAdvance CEO. “Now with CircuitPlan, we provide PCB Designers, hardware engineers, test engineers and manufacturing engineers with solutions and an advanced methodology for planning, physical design, review / verification,” continued Mr. Pupa.
Floor Planning and Conceptual Product Planning Featured Capabilities:
• Feasibility Analysis [multi-level fit studies]
• Plan with generic or pseudo components and/or CircuitSpace templates
• Concurrent syncing with schematic allows the user to replace generic or pseudo with schematic completed components
• View Functional and Physical Design encompassing inter-view connectivity
• Populate your Design with data from previous designs and reference boards
• Import/Export into IDF and/or leading PCB design flows
• Placement Automation Capabilities
- Interactive Clustering
- Replication of exact/partial clusters
- Modify and propagate changes
- Apply templates
Availability
CircuitPlan v1.0 will be available in February 2009, pricing starts at $3,990. Customers can see a demonstration of our new advanced design methodologies - CircuitSpace / CircuitProbe / CircuitPlan on January 27, and February 10, 200.
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