Software Solutions for Electrical Wiring and Fluid Design

E³.series provides a comprehensive, Windows® based, solution for the design and documentation of today’s complex electrical and electronic systems. It is a state-of-the-art proven application, based on common component databases and symbol libraries to ensure a unique representation of circuit diagrams, producing accurate, error-free documentation with simultaneous manufacturing and support documentation.

With E³.series you can increase your design productivity using the most advanced ECAD engine that links schematic design, panel layout, terminal diagrams, cable block diagrams and wiring design tasks in a single design environment. Because E³.series offers integrated design tasks along with the consistent Windows® graphical user interface, you can maximize engineering design skills and minimize training costs.

DS-CR is designed specifically for electronic design and manufacturing engineers to provide them with current, validated CAD component libraries, schematic and PCB layout data and material information to:

• Manage and consolidate material information and parts lists in a controlled release and revision process
• Manage tasks and workflows for change and approval processes
• Support intelligent design configuration and reuse through module management.

DS-CR offers a reliable source of information for all product development and change activities.

Functional areas within DS-CR:

• EDA Library Master (ELM): manage all symbols, footprints and specifications required for the PCB design process.
• Component Master (CM): a single-source environment for all component information within the engineering process. Component Master consolidates ECAD Library items with material information (typically managed in an ERP environment).
• Engineering Desktop (EDT): provides CR-8000 design data and related documents in a controlled environment, with comprehensive access control, revision management and analysis functionality. This includes simulation data, footprints, parts lists, and CAM data.
• Component List Master (CLM): used to generate accurate BOMs that combine all associated schematic and PCB data, component information, documents and drawings.
• PDM Connector: DS-2 has been designed to enhance existing PLM systems – not to replace them. In a typical scenario, DS-2 is used to manage work-in-progress design data. DS-2 can integrate with all major PLM and ERP systems and provides SOA-based "plug & play" connectors; in addition, generic integration APIs are available for other third party systems.
• EDA Library Master (ELM): manage all symbols, footprints and specifications required for the PCB design process.
• Component Master (CM): a single-source environment for all component information within the engineering process. Component Master consolidates ECAD Library items with material information (typically managed in an ERP environment).
• Engineering Desktop (EDT): provides CR-8000 design data and related documents in a controlled environment, with comprehensive access control, revision management and analysis functionality. This includes simulation data, footprints, parts lists, and CAM data.
• Component List Master (CLM): used to generate accurate BOMs that combine all associated schematic and PCB data, component information, documents and drawings.
• PDM Connector: DS-2 has been designed to enhance existing PLM systems – not to replace them. In a typical scenario, DS-2 is used to manage work-in-progress design data. DS-2 can integrate with all major PLM and ERP systems and provides SOA-based "plug & play" connectors; in addition, generic integration APIs are available for other third party systems.

The first completely new board design solution to be built from the start to incorporate all of the hardware and software advances of the last two decades.

Taking advantage of the latest hardware and software architectures, CR-8000 has been built to meet today’s and tomorrow’s design challenges. It is the only concept-to-manufacturing, native 2D and 3D, multi-board system design solution on the market.

CADSTAR is Zuken’s powerful PCB design solution that allows an intuitive work flow, guiding designers easily through their design process. CADSTAR incorporates all the technologies necessary for a complete electronic development process in a single environment.

The full range of the solution includes schematics, board- and FPGA-level system design, PCB layout, high-speed and signal integrity, analysis, 3D, and creation of manufacturing output, complemented by complete data management capabilities and extensive internet-accessible libraries containing over 200,000 components.

Its price-performance, coupled with a scalable design environment, provides total flexibility to engineers of small- to mid-sized EDA development teams.

Intuitive work flow

Throughout CADSTAR’s Schematic and PCB design editors, the menu items and options are all in the same location, providing intuitive guidance through the design process.

Fast design cycle

Zuken’s P.R.Editor XR HS (Place & Route High-Speed) is at the heart of CADSTAR. With a 'right-first-time' approach, this powerful placement and routing tool is optimized for speed and accuracy, tackling today’s dense PCB design challenges with creativity and intelligent automation.

CADSTAR’s fully integrated 3D environment dramatically reduces design time by using proven technology from the verification and timing analysis engines in Zuken’s high-end solutions.

Migration preserves legacy data

Migrating from PADS or other tools to CADSTAR is simple. Users can move all the data over to CADSTAR from previous designs, re-using symbols, footprints and other supporting design data and benefit from the ability to re-work legacy designs.

Enterprise-wide modular PCB Design

CR-5000 is Zuken’s most advanced modular and robust electronics systems and PCB design software. Created to manage the complete development and manufacturing preparation process on an enterprise-wide scale, Zuken's leading-edge PCB design software was developed specifically for medium to large organizations. CR-5000 offers highly sophisticated functionality for the design of multi-layer and high-speed boards, addressing design challenges such as signal integrity and EMC, while ensuring manufacturability. As it guides the user through the design process from design concept to production preparation, its intuitive design flow is supported by comprehensive database management. The performance of CR-5000, coupled with its modular and scalable design environment, provides product development teams across disciplines and geographic boundaries with flexibility and maximum collaboration opportunities for handling multi-user designs.

Highlights

• Increased design productivity and improved PCB performance through leading-edge electronics design functionality
• Right-first-time products through a constraints-driven design process with DFM techniques throughout PCB design and manufacturing
• Design technologies for multi-layer and high-speed PCBs, with integrated signal integrity and EMC analysis and optimization
• Support for multi-user PCB designs worldwide, crucial for medium to large organizations
• Object-oriented, database-driven PCB design software architecture
• Intuitive graphical user interface and PCB design work flow
• Built-in support for design variants and version control
• Easy integration with MCAD, PLM, or ERP systems

The seamlessly integrated tools within CR-5000 enable the interactive work flow required for a straightforward design process, and provide all the technologies required for an efficient and complete electronics development process in a single environment: system design and analysis, constraints management, concurrent FPGA and PCB design, PCB layout and verification, high-speed and EMC analysis, and production preparation, all complemented by a sophisticated parts library manager, powerful documentation system, and an extensive internet-accessible components library. CR-5000 further supports co-design and co-verification with powerful widely used mechanical, electrical, and thermal design systems.

Fast and reliable design process

CR-5000 enables the right-first-time design of electronics products through a constraints-driven design process. From design to manufacturing data preparation, PCB integrity is maintained by concurrent design and verification, with co-simulation of both analog and digital functional blocks and programmable devices, signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC optimization.