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31 July 2012

Product News

Zuken Delivers Enhanced High-speed PCB Design and FPGA Collaboration

Zuken today announces the latest release of CR-5000, its advanced PCB and IC Package design software. CR-5000 version 14 sees a number of significant productivity enhancements for greater collaboration in FPGA development and for high-speed design. Many enhancements have also been included in CR-5000 Lightning, Zuken’s high-speed design verification tool that enables rapid, accurate results, coupled with first-rate signal integrity, EMC and power integrity analysis.

Enics, an electronics manufacturing services company that develops PCBs for customers working in harsh environments, uses Lightning to locate high-speed design issues early in the design process. Anders Karlsson, Enics’ PCB Design Manager, says: "One customer was impressed when we used CR-5000 Lightning to pick up an EMI problem prior to the board going to the testing chamber. It was able to pinpoint where the potential emission problems were straight away and reduce design iterations. CR-5000 Lightning has given us a real competitive edge."

Verify quickly

Within CR-5000 Lightning, designers can automatically derive total routing capacitance to meet vendor specification for high-speed applications, such as DDR3. Lightning also has support for nested sub-circuits and coupled inductors (K elements) for importing SPICE models. This offers users more capability and power for analysis.

For batch SI simulation and analysis, improvements in operation and reporting for Lightning’s SI Controller include: expanded verification results and new options for generating reports, including automatic waveform image creation, to improve verification during the design process.

Also included are enhancements to DDR2/DDR3 wizards for managing constraints for multi-receiver, high-speed signal structures, and enhanced design reports supporting cross-probing with the PCB design.

Improved ease of use

Those with an eye on reducing design time to maximize the bottom line will appreciate the ease-of-use enhancements within CR-5000 Board Designer.

Constraint setup is now simpler: differential pairs can be created automatically, and new utilities allow constraints to be applied to high-speed signals without accessing the Constraint Editor. There is also improved collaboration during layout and design review. Design mark-ups can be exchanged bi-directionally between Board Designer and Board Viewer Advance for intelligent exchange of feedback.

Greater collaboration for FPGA and ASIC design

For improved co-design of PCBs and programmable devices, such as FPGAs and ASICs, there is now tighter integration in CR-5000 with Zuken’s Graphical Pin Manager (GPM). New changes to high pin count, multi-symbol devices in GPM can be updated collectively and automatically during logical circuit design. For FPGA design, pin constraint files in vendor specific formats, such as Xilinx or Altera, can be submitted to FPGA design tools, while updated signals associated to a device pin or signal names can be filtered. Other improvements include new filter options to control attributes while exporting pin-out information for better IP control during ASIC development.

CR-5000 version 14 is available now.

For more information, visit www.zuken.com/cr-5000.

 

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