AHOTAustinAug14

Visit with us at the Dallas and North Texas Chapter of the IPC DESIGNER
COUNCIL Spring PCB Design Seminar by a speaker to be announced.

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.