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News Release from: Zuken | Subject: CR-5000 version 10.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 May 2007
PCB design solution handles differential
pairs
With around 90% of designs now featuring differential pairs, Zuken has made quick and efficient handling of this technology a focus for the CR-5000 10.0 PCB design solution.
Zuken has released CR-5000 version 10.0, the enterprise-wide printed circuit board (PCB) design solution The system offers advanced methodologies to support high-speed differential pairs essential for DDR design, further developments related to routing technology, and enhancements to integration and design flow
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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With around 90% of designs now featuring differential pairs, Zuken has made quick and efficient handling of this technology a focus for CR-5000 10.0.
Differential pairs can now be seamlessly managed and constrained throughout the design flow by the engineer, delivering increased design consistency by front loading the design process.
Version 10.0 also supports many additional topology styles for differential pairs - which are essential for architectures such as DDR2 and DDR3.
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Zuken's Trunk router, optimised for differential pair design, has also been updated to support full interactive routing of these topologies.
Version 10.0 of Lightning, the high-speed environment in CR-5000, has seen improvements in interactive functionality relating to H-Tree topologies, guaranteeing zero skew routing of bridge and shunt-terminated H-Trees.
It is also now possible to dynamically re-lengthen a net in order to meet constraints during routing operations.
In addition, existing lengthening blocks in a net are now automatically re-lengthened in preference to adding new blocks.
Significant focus has been directed at increasing the design/electrical engineers' involvement within the product design flow by further improving the bidirectional communication between different CR-5000 applications.
Deeper integration between system-level and board-level environments, CR-5000 System Designer and CR-5000 Board Designer, means that CR-5000 Lightning can now be used by engineers as an engineering floor planning tool - saving time and increasing design quality as a result of further front loading of the design process.
Support for multiple template copper pour layers has simplified design for manufacturing complex multi-layered boards by making it easier to manage multiple copper areas throughout the design flow.
Facilitating adoption of latest buffer technologies, CR-5000 10.0 also supports IBIS 4.2, IBIS terminator models, Ibis series elements and Spice mutual inductance elements.
By adding features such as smart (automatic) Ibis import, search and browse facilities, model administration has become remarkably simple.
Ease of use for simulation has been improved with the introduction of a new 'subtract waveform' feature to visualise the result of what-if analysis.
For power integrity, the power plane impedance calculation has been vastly enhanced in order to help the user to optimise selection and placement of decoupling capacitors. Request a free brochure from Zuken ...
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