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News Release from: Innoveda | Subject: DxDesigner
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 May 2001
Web-based tool suite integrates design
teams
DxDesigner is a new web-based solution that Innoveda claims redefines the paradigm for design creation.
DxDesigner is a new web-based solution that Innoveda claims redefines the paradigm for design creation DxDesigner forms the gateway linking computer-aided engineering and team-based design collaboration
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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DxDesigner redefines front-end design engineering through a process of "design definition" that combines four key process technologies: component information systems; design entry and sharing; simulation and planning; and enterprise connectivity within a single comprehensive solution.
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According to Innoveda's Rick Almeida: "Manufacturers of electronic products are spending too much time trying to ensure the integrity of information into and out of engineering.
They're looking for ways to allow the whole organization, not just engineering, to communicate on design intent and collaborate on design solutions proactively.
DxDesigner tackles this problem head on by integrating multiple tasks and sharing results early in the design process.
We believe this unique approach will redefine the role of schematic entry, making it a more useful approach to new product engineering".
DxDesigner enables geographically dispersed teams to co-ordinate their efforts and use a centralised, corporate-approved parts library.
This reduces errors and ensures the product is not held up in manufacturing due to obsolete or unavailable components.
The use of advanced hierarchical design techniques enables the reuse of common or standard subsystems in future designs, speeding delivery of the next generation of a product.
DxDesigner also enables engineers to create designs and simulate them using the latest in component technology.
Engineers faced with using high-speed devices can use DxDesigner to find, test and eliminate signal integrity problems prior to the first PCB spin.
DxDesigner can analyse any and all PCB nets for potential signal integrity problems and develop physical design constraints based on the analysis to ensure a working end product.
The DxDesigner scalable tool suite will be available in three configurations.
DxDesigner is the foundation for design entry, library and data management, component selection from corporate databases and web-based schematic viewing.
It provides a hierarchical tree view of the design, a navigator to display components and nets for a given design context, a multi-object attribute editor, a design drawing tool, a parts and design data selection tool, and a design synchronisation capability that manages design data.
A novel feature for sharing design intent enables engineers to see schematics through a web-based viewer over the Internet.
In addition, designs can be captured in.pdf format, and viewed and navigated through an Adobe Acrobat Reader.
DxDesigner EE builds on DxDesigner by adding Innoveda's Fusion technology to enable analogue, digital or mixed A/D design and simulation.
Engineers quickly can simulate analogue and/or digital circuitry, while maintaining tight linkage to the enterprise for team-based design and component selection.
Finally, DxDesigner HSD incorporates technology for high-speed PCB planning including: a graphical preplacement tool to define and analyse critical component placement selections; a spreadsheet for entering and managing constraints; a graphical tool for designing and simulating net topologies that leverages Innoveda's industry-leading XTKT simulation engine; and a high-performance analysis tool that can sweep high-speed parameters to determine the proper constraints for placement and routing.
DxDesigner is scheduled to be available in Q3 2001 on Windows and Unix platforms.
The tool suite is scalable to meet companies' financial and engineering requirements.
The new design-creation solution will be exhibited next month at Booth #2621, at the 38th Design Automation Conference.
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