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News Release from: Zuken | Subject: CR-5000 Lightning
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 June 2005
Design solution puts verification to the
fore
Zuken reckons that its new high-speed design solution is its greatest technical innovation since the launch of its CR-5000 enterprise wide PCB design solution.
Zuken reckons that its new high-speed design solution, CR-5000 Lightning, is its greatest technical innovation since the launch of its enterprise wide PCB design solution, CR-5000 This pioneering development is born from collaboration between research and development teams across the globe - Japan, the UK and Germany
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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This fully integrated design environment into CR-5000 Board Designer and CR-5000 System Designer ensures a fully adopted front-loading approach, allowing users to share information through a unified database directly within the high-speed design environment.
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Integration, unification and process orientation are the key concepts behind this new technology.
The use of unified and shared design constraints, eliminates complexities associated with separate design and provides control for activities such as circuit design, floorplans and board design.
Unification and communication between board design and system design with high-speed constraints and analysis enables a process oriented method of development.
Sharing the same analysis engine enables a unified operation to take place, resulting in improved design quality and speed, by front-loading verification procedures.
Front-loading of verification improves design quality and time to market.
This is achieved by functionality such as advanced analysis; in addition to signal integrity analysis, EMC (EMI/power integrity) analysis is also possible at the routing stage.
Problems that were previously impossible to check during prototyping, can be verified and resolved one or two stages earlier - meeting critical requirements of high-speed design to investigate constraints early.
This not only assists engineers to meet important electrical and mechanical constraints, but also speeds up the process to final product specification.
It also ensures that design parameters are followed throughout the design process to guarantee manufacturability.
Combined unique technology assists in effective handling of the creation of complex designs, such as allowing the development of multiboards from the circuit design stage.
Using design methods that rely on conventional knowhow and partial optimization are no longer feasible for the latest high-speed designs.
The growth in the adoption of this advanced technology mandates deeper integration and a single design environment that has the ability to predict the behaviour of PCBs in terms of signal integrity and EMC.
CR-5000 Lightning starts at $19,800 or Eur 19,500, this includes node locked CR-5000 Lightning SI licence with a Prolog Link (an addon option that provides direct access to SI simulation/verification from CR-5000 System Designer). Request a free brochure from Zuken ...
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