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News Release from: Zuken | Subject: Hot-Stage 4.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 March 2004
Virtual prototyping now verifies
complete systems
Hot-Stage 4.2 is the latest upgrade to Zuken's high-speed virtual prototyping tool for PCB design.
Hot-Stage 4.2 is the latest upgrade to Zuken's high-speed virtual prototyping tool for PCB design Key enhancements include support for electrical board descriptions (EBDs) that form part of the Ibis standard, definition of hierarchical stimuli, advanced skew handling and improved autorouting
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hot-Stage uses a constraints database, shared by all tools across the design flow, to ensure that the knowledge added by design engineers is always maintained with the design, improving design integrity and reducing errors when engineering changes come late in the design cycle.
In Hot-Stage 4.2, electrical board description (EBD) support means that users can verify signal integrity of entire electronic systems comprising a main board with associated daughterboards.
Increased predictability of SI performance cuts design schedules and time to market.
In the past, this kind of verification was only possible once a prototype had been manufactured.
The new release features a number of quality and ease-of-use improvements.
For designing high-speed bus terminations it is important to model the behaviour with multiple data patterns, so there is now an option to define stimuli hierarchically at design, bus, net class or net level.
Not everyone is an expert in configuring routing and floorplanning tools so autorouting wizards have been improved to deliver easy footprinting and better routing completion.
Users need to find operational boundaries before the main design cycle starts, so a simulation parameter sweep on transmission line length finds the route lengths at which extra signal integrity measures are needed.
Customers identify enhanced matched delay and length handling for buses and differential pairs as a primary requirement, so Zuken has introduced improvements such as wizards for fast, easy constraint management and enhanced constraint compliance and feedback in automatic and interactive routing. Request a free brochure from Zuken ...
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