Product category:
Design and Development Software
News Release from: Innoveda
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2001
Intusoft helps Innoveda with circuit
simulation
Innoveda has announced an agreement in which Intusoft will provide circuit simulation capabilities for Innoveda's recently announced DxDesigner product suite.
Innoveda has announced an agreement in which Intusoft will provide circuit simulation capabilities for Innoveda's recently announced DxDesigner product suite Intusoft, the San Pedro, California-based designer of circuit simulation and test software, will deliver proprietary algorithms and simulation technology for DxDesigner, scheduled to be released later this summer
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The agreement expands upon the existing OEM relationship between the two companies.
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.
This enables better communication among geographically dispersed engineering and manufacturing teams, resulting in more efficient component selection, less post-layout rework, fewer design defects, and shorter prototype-debugging cycles.
According to Rick Almeida, Innoveda's vice president of marketing, Product Realization Group, "DxDesigner stresses the need for simulation and planning as one of the critical components in design definition.
To meet the simulation requirements of analogue and mixed-signal circuits, the DxAnalog module will incorporate Intusoft's interactive Spice engine, as well as the IntuScope5 waveform analyser, Spice modeling program, and extensive model libraries.
Together, these tools will enable Innoveda customers to run Monte Carlo, optimisation, sweep, and fault analyses on analogue and mixed-signal PCB and IC designs, as well as on multi-discipline systems".
Almeida added, "Without simulation templates, designers must enter nominal values for the parameters of their circuit.
Then, to see the effects of parameter tolerance variation, designers must change those parameters using a cumbersome, time-consuming, and often costly process.
With DxDesigner, electrical engineers will be able to customise advanced circuit analyses that include measurements based on parametric variations for intra-component sensitivity, root summed square, extreme value, worst case, and Monte Carlo statistical simulations".
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