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News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: Saber
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2007
PCB design and simulation go hand in
hand
Saber Simulator and CR-5000 System Designer work together to deliver a platform for integrated system level electronic design, simulation and verification.
Synopsys and Zuken are working together to develop an integrated and robust printed circuit board (PCB) design and simulation solution The intended solution combines two complementary product lines - Synopsys' Saber Simulator and Zuken's CR-5000 System Designer - to deliver a platform for integrated system level electronic design, simulation and verification
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The companies have agreed to develop a new, tightly integrated interface between Zuken's CR-5000 System Designer and Synopsys' Saber Simulator for analogue and mixed signal board level design.
Development teams from both companies will use Synopsys' frameway technology, which has been used to successfully integrate the Saber Simulator with other third party environments, to create a bidirectional interface between the complementary toolsets.
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Customers will use System Designer to create their designs, and then directly launch Saber simulations from within the CR-5000 environment.
This approach eliminates potential errors by connecting the design implementation, simulator and results analysis within a common interface.
Results will be analysed in Synopsys' CosmosScope waveform analyser.
"We strongly support Synopsys and Zuken working together to improve the PCB design and verification environment".
"The enhanced integration will undoubtedly increase productivity and improve design reliability".
"This has a significant impact on design time, ultimately getting higher quality products to market", says Dr Eng Joachim Fetzer, Director of Gasoline Systems, Electronic Control Units, Module Engineering from Bosch.
"For the automotive and aerospace sectors that we both serve, highly accurate and reliable physical simulation is critical".
"The Saber simulator is the most trusted and recognised analogue/mixed signal simulator in the automotive and aerospace industries".
"Working with Synopsys to integrate our design and simulation environments, we can improve the quality and reliability of product design".
"This partnership can make the Zuken solution one of the most comprehensive PCB design environments available", comments Gerhard Lipski, Zuken European GM and CEO of Zuken Americas.
"Our customers will clearly benefit from this strategic partnership between Synopsys and Zuken as the resulting platform bridges the gap between PCB design and verification".
"Zuken's CR-5000 design environment is a market leader in the design and layout of printed circuit boards".
"The integration of the Saber Simulator with CR-5000 System Designer brings robust design methodologies to the board level design market", says Mick O'Brien, VP and GM of the Saber product line at Synopsys.
Synopsys' Saber Simulator is a powerful modelling and simulation environment used to simulate, analyse and verify system interactions between multiple physical domains (electrical, magnetic, mechanical, thermal, hydraulic etc).
With its advanced time domain and frequency domain analyses, comprehensive model libraries, multi language modelling tools, and powerful waveform analyser, designers can utilise robust design techniques to optimise their designs for performance, reliability and cost.
Production proven on thousands of successful designs in multiple industries, the Saber simulator is a preferred solution among design teams worldwide for minimising development costs, reducing design iterations and improving reliability.
CR-5000 is Zuken's scalable and robust PCB and advanced packaging layout suite created for the small to large enterprise market.
It incorporates the latest technology with a "design for manufacturability" methodology, which enables rules applied early in the design process to be maintained right through to manufacturing, helping to ensure products are right first time and manufacturable first time.
System Designer is the design creation part of Zuken's CR-5000 enterprise wide design solution for the development of advanced electronic products.
System Designer is a graphical tool for design capture and analysis.
It supports a wide range of graphical and textual design entry methods and is suited to digital, analogue and mixed signal circuit design at both system and PCB level.
The tool is tightly linked to synthesis, simulation, timing analysis, verification, and debugging, throughout the design process.
The design entry methodology has been developed to reduce design time, minimise product cost and size, and improve product quality.
The companies expect the complete, integrated interface to be available in late 2007.
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