CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
27 January 2009
Product News
Zuken Tackles Time to Market Challenge Head On with CADSTAR Schematic Free Download
Zuken recognizes that time to market is a critical factor in the day to day work of design teams within the product development process. To support this the development team for CADSTAR, Zuken’s PCB design solution, is inviting design engineers to experience the latest CADSTAR Schematic Design Tool and Library Editor as a free download for a limited period of time, commencing January 5, 2009 until 31 March 2009. This unlimited and non expiring copy of CADSTAR 11 Schematic Design Tool will allow the whole design team to explore the benefits of CADSTAR’s integrated design flow opportunities.
Zuken’s customers advise the designs themselves are becoming more and more complex, to the extent that passing on critical design information between the members of the design team, each often using individual design tools, can be time consuming and allows design errors.
The major problem is that “right first time” design, communication and data transfer are needed in a single environment. Zuken’s CADSTAR design tool operates so the design teams can process their designs through one single design tool environment, and thus maximizing their operational costs and efficiency.
One design Graphical User Interface (GUI) between the different design tools provides important benefits including; ease of use, programmable function keys, consistency between Schematics, PCB and Library, re-use proven designs and passing of design constraints (such as impedance, length, delay, diff pairs, topology etc).
The free download is available via our websitewww.zuken.com/CADSTAR and to download the software you will need to provide a MAC address reference to obtain your license.
In conjunction with this latest release of CADSTAR Schematic 11 Zuken also created the 'Do-It-Yourself' manual to guide you through the schematic design process and help you evaluate the potential of CADSTAR Schematic. Onwww.zuken.com/CADSTAR you will also find the latest PCB design evaluation software CADSTAR Express 11.
About CADSTAR Schematics
CADSTAR Schematics contains a host of user friendly features including
- Constraints-driven technology, in order to produce complex PCB designs by defining, manipulating and obeying constraints early in the schematic design process. Abolishing the need for the PCB designer to enter these manually with the verbal or written assistance of the engineer.
- Error-free transfer to PCB
- Engineering change orders (ECOs) are easily forwarded and back annotated between the Schematics and PCB design
- Cross probing between applications
- Version control to determine whether the parts, components, and symbols are the latest version available from the components library; also ensures integration into the supply chain
- Design re-use allows re-use of proven and tested logical circuits, typically used for:
- Power supplies
- RF designs
- Multichannel designs (I/O, drivers etc.)
- Via fan-out and decoupling structures on high pin count devices
- Multiple filtering fields for searching the library
- Drag and drop symbols into designs
- Intelligent busses
- Auto connect symbols
- Schematic Symbol Creation wizard to output multiple gates
- Sheet Signal References for easy browsing through the hierarchical schematics
- Hide pins when a symbol is connected
- Highlight unconnected pins in schematics providing an easy overview for engineers to identify any forgotten pin connections
- Highlight nets using multiple colors
- Positional symbol rename in schematics
- Intelligent native PDF output for documentation
- Customizable Report Generator to output Bill of Materials or any other information as required
- Additional products are available such as:
- The Variant Manager allows the designer to change any parts to match all the different product and international requirements, storing all the information in a single CADSTAR Schematic and PCB design
- Interfaces with spice simulators
- CADSTAR FPGA synchronizing FPGA and PCB design
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