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Partnership Integrates PCB Design & Simulation
May 31, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif; WESTFORD, Mass.; MUNICH, Germany Synopsys and Zuken formed a partnership to integrate complementary design, verification, and simulation software suites for analog and mixed-signal board-level PCB development. The companies established an In-Sync agreement for mutual promotion and development.
Development teams from both companies will use Synopsys' Frameway technology, which was previously used to integrate third-party environments, to create a bi-directional interface between Synopsys' Saber Simulator and Zuken's CR-5000 System Designer. With this, PCB designers will be able to use System Designer to create a PCB layout, then launch Saber simulations directly from within the CR-5000 environment. Results will be analyzed in Synopsys' CosmosScope waveform analyzer. The integrated interface will launch late in 2007. Combining the complementary design and simulation suites should reduce errors that result from transferring between interfaces, reduce design time and iterations, and increase the accuracy and reliability of physical simulations, according to company representatives.
The Saber Simulator environment simulates, analyzes, and verifies system interactions between multiple physical domains. It offers advanced time and frequency domain analyses, model libraries, and other toolsets to create "Robust Design" techniques. CR-5000 is a scalable PCB and advanced packaging layout suite for small to large enterprises that incorporates design for manufacture (DfM) methodologies. The CR-5000 System Designer tool for design capture-and-analysis supports a range of graphical and textual design-entry methods and suits digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design at system and PCB levels.