PCE Texas

PCE Texas-
Since 1990, PCE Texas has provided the EDA tools and experience to enable the most
efficient design of electronics within many companies throughout the South Central
states. For detailed information on our product offerings and our services please utilize
the links above and then contact us when we can be of service to you or to your team of
PCB designers.

Take a moment or two to review the products and services we offer by pressing the
products button above or browse through our partner list and poke around in our resource
files to determine if we can help you work smarter today!

News Headlines!

Summer Special! Logo to Gerber Conversion Service Offered for only $100.00. That's
right, send us your scanned company Logo along with your company P.O and we will
convert it to Gerber, or if you prefer to CADSTAR .paf or to Autocad .dxf and return it to
you within 24 hours. Be sure to indicate the scale at which you wish to see the results
returned. Call us also about our other ECAD translation services.

CADSTAR Version 10.0 p2 is now available for download for all CADSTAR Customers
on Maintenance and Support Contracts. This enhanced version responds to your request
for enhancements and features in a more timely manner than would have been possible
waiting for the next release in the fall. Log into LinkZ on Cadstarworld.com for exact
detailed list of enhancements. Cadstar 10.0p2 will be followed shortly by the release of
CADSTAR Express V10 and in the fall by CADSTAR V11.0. Those wishing to discuss the
anticipated features of CS11.0 are invited to call.

PCE Texas has inked a contract with PCB Libraries to offer the full product line of IPC
footprint creation wizards for creating libraries in the format required by all popular CAD
systems. This new tool can reduce you own library maintenance time as well as reduce
errors in part creation. PCB Libraries offers free CADSTAR mechanical components
library. Call now to obtain your own trial version.

We also recently returned from the Zuken Design Automation Conference, and are
now armed with valuable briefing materials on several topics of interest some of which I
will list below. If you would like to have a copy of any of this material just phone or send to
us your email request for the same.

Features of Cadstar 10
Zuken Releases CADSTAR 10 with Improved Intelligent
Functionalities for both the PCB Designer and Electronic Engineer
CADSTAR 10: Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA; Zuken
announces the latest version of the desktop PCB design solution, CADSTAR 10.0,
which includes the addition of a large number of intelligent functionalities for schematic,
library and PCB design, tighter integration with FPGA design tools, and the introduction
of an alternative schematic front-end solution Eł.logic.
Design Control
There has been an increased focus on supporting both the engineer and designer to
create "right-first-time" designs in shorter time frames. CADSTAR offers users the
ability to perform version control at the parts and component level, store parts
information in the PCB design, set-up detailed layer stacks for buried and blind via
technologies and carry-out impedance controlled routing. CADSTAR 10.0 also includes
extended ODB++ output for manufacturing, the ability to highlight nets using multiple
colors, plus FPGA design integration and a fully integrated parts library manager in
‘Design Editor'.
Ease-of-use
Ease-of-use with the well-known intuitive workflow has been further improved, to
include integration of additional features for assigning any combination of function keys,
enhanced layers settings GUI, support of custom colors using the standard Microsoft
color dialog, smart update of new software releases and automatic parts index
creation. All interactive operations are available while working in a mirrored view in the
intelligent place & routing tool, P.R.Editor, for intelligent interactive lengthening or
re-lengthening.
Eł.logic for CADSTAR
Zuken's Eł.series module, Eł.logic, can now be offered as an add-on solution for
CADSTAR to further boost users' productivity. Used as a front-end solution for
CADSTAR PCB design it will allow support of multilingual diagrams, multilingual text
and Unicode. The use of the Eł.Logic database as a back-end solution for CADSTAR
PCB design reduces the time spent searching for existing parts, integrates easily with
specific MRP, ERP or PDM systems and works with databases that comply with
Microsoft's ODBC standard. The CADSTAR Eł.logic integration also provides
opportunities to directly integrate with other Eł.series modules such as Eł.cable for
complete system level integrated electronics and electrical design.
FPGA Integration
The recently introduced add-on module, CADSTAR FPGA, supports one universal
project manager that controls all the design files for simulation, synthesis, place and
route and pin assignment to the PCB board, as well as the I/O synchronization between
the FPGA device and the PCB board.
This will allow the FPGA designer to forward and backward annotate pin swaps with the
PCB layout.
CADSTAR 10 is now available, with modules starting from $1000.
Using B2 Spice with Cadstar
Using ODB++ with Cadstar
Metric Pitch BGA Fanout Solutions
Solving Power Distribution to Small Pitch Chips

JOB OPENINGS
Announcement! The economy is continues to improve in our industry reguardless of what
you see on the television news, we have some well paid CADSTAR designer openings
available, so call us if you are in need of a full time position. We have customers who
want to hire both PCB designers and Electrical Engineers and they will train suitable new
candidates on CADSTAR if they have sufficient background on some other tool..

Altium PCAD Users, PADS Users, and Orcad Users, check out PCE Partner, Logic Swap
who has developed Schematic, Layout, and Library Translators.

And a final note, Circuitpac, our design center offers 24/7 PCB Layout services on all
major tool formats and without overtime premium and has designers located in Austin,
Dallas, San Jose, and Phoenix so contact us for a design quote today!