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Placement Automation Benefits PCB Designers
May 16, 2007 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
ROCHESTER, N.Y. and PITTSBURG EMA Design Automation added DesignAdvance's CircuitSpace technology to is PCB design flow solution; EMA claims the software improves communications between hardware engineers and layout designers by automating component placement in the design.
CircuitSpace automates component layout with hierarchical design based on autoclustering, intelligent physical design reuse and replication, project-wide concurrent layout development, template generation with or without etch, advanced "sustaining engineering" process, and other reporting and development features. Placement times can be reduced by more than 50% by moving from a manual to an automated layout process, said Edward Pupa, CEO, DesignAdvance. EMA noted that automating component placement typically is difficult, and that the DesignAdvance technology could boost productivity for its electronic design automation (EDA) users.