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News Release from: DesignAdvance | Subject: CircuitSpace v1.5
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 March 2006
Component placement software speeds PCB
design
DesignAdvance Systems has released a new version of CircuitSpace, its award-winning user-assisted PCB component placement software.
DesignAdvance Systems has released a new version of CircuitSpace, its award-winning user-assisted PCB component placement software CircuitSpace v1.5 furthers DesignAdvance's commitment to boosting the productivity of PCB designers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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This version expands on the tool's established hierarchical approach to printed circuit board design through enhanced auto-clustering and replication technologies.
Additionally, it improves CircuitSpace's ability to expedite the design process by expanding on its capabilities in the areas of template libraries, automatic bypass capacitor assignments, double-sided board placement and intelligent channel and/or port duplication.
"Since the initial release of CircuitSpace, DesignAdvance has been working hard to overcome the long standing perception that automated component placement is difficult to use and unable to make a significant impact on the PCB design process", said Randy Eager, DesignAdvance CEO.
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"We are seeing a real change in mind set once designers are exposed to CircuitSpace".
"Having seen unsuccessful attempts, I was skeptical of any company claiming to have a product that automates component placement".
"My opinion on the subject changed since I started using CircuitSpace", said Mark Dills, 20-year-plus veteran of the PCB business and a Senior PCB Designer with Softeq.
"The auto-clustering and replication features alone can save hours, days, even weeks of time off of a design cycle".
This latest release of CircuitSpace also adds features to address the challenges associated with managing frequent board design modifications so common in today's concurrent design processes.
CircuitSpace v1.5 guides its users through the concurrent board design by: automatically identifying changes to a board design as they arrive through successive netlist imports; producing addendum clusters for newly added parts; assessing the impact of design changes on component placement and reporting part loss or gain and part type changes; and reporting on detailed changes from current board design, to quickly adapt to the new requirements and to facilitate feedback to the hardware engineer.
"The latest enhancements to CircuitSpace present our customers with a significant upgrade to the current 'click-and-drag' component placement process", continued Eager.
"We are especially pleased with the improvements to the concurrent board design process, which underscores our goal to deliver a product that enhances the way engineers and designers work today rather than forcing them to adopt a foreign process to get their jobs done".
CircuitSpace v1.5 is currently in beta and is expected to be generally available in Q2 of 2006.
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