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News Release from: Zuken | Subject: Cadstar
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 September 2003
PCB software bundles high-end routing
technology
Zuken has devised a new bundling portfolio for Cadstar, its desktop PCB design solution.
Zuken has devised a new bundling portfolio for Cadstar, its desktop PCB design solution The new portfolio makes Zuken's existing high-end routing technology, PR Editor XR 2000 and PR Editor XR 5000, available to PCB designers and provides them with a clear upgrade path as their design requirements grow
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Zuken has also expanded its sales channels in the USA and Europe with the signing of four new VARs.
The new Cadstar bundling portfolio includes a broad range of functionality for all levels of users, while providing scalability as the complexity of their board designs evolves.
By blending Zuken's PCB technologies to provide new purchasing options, Zuken offers users an infrastructure of productivity resources, an integrated environment in which designers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers can collaborate effectively, a clear roadmap for future development, and a complete PCB solution at an aggressive price.
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Dedicated design for radial PCBs
Cadstar Radial Design is a single-environment solution for the design of radial PCBs, based on Zuken's Cadstar suite of PCB design tools and the company's high speed Route Editor.
PCB CAD parts library saves reinventing wheels
Zuken has made the Cadstar parts library for PCB design solution available online, enabling designers to access symbols, footprints and parts information instantly from any location.
The PR Editor XR 2000 router is available with each new Cadstar bundle for PCB boards with four, six or unlimited layers and enables board designers to boost productivity and reduce time to market through a combination of manual, automatic, and interactive grid-free routing.
The flexibility offered by the various options means that companies designing boards with only a few layers can access the most advanced routing tool currently available.
A key productivity feature of the router is Activ-45, which delivers error-free, automatic completion of interactive routing with a single mouse click.
PR Editor XR 2000 also includes powerful push-aside and spring-back functions when placing or moving components, eliminating errors from overlapping components.
Cadstar is a Windows-based solution for PCB design that spans schematic capture, placement, routing, library creation and management, signal integrity, EMC analysis, and production of manufacturing data.
Cadstar also delivers powerful add-on technology with its 100,000+ component internet libraries, 3D design tool, automatic and high-speed routing, variant management, and signal integrity solutions providing users with a high-end solution at competitive prices.
Cadstar suites are offered at four levels - Bronze, Silver, Platinum, and Diamond - with variations of product bundles within each suite depending on the number of electrical routing layers required.
All Cadstar suites include library, schematic, layout and interactive routing functionalities.
The four new Cadstar VARs and service bureaus are: Circuit Concepts, K and K Marketing, PCB Interconnect and CADvision SAS. Request a free brochure from Zuken ...
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