Z-DAC Americas

To be announced in October: our very latest innovation in enterprise PCB Design Tools. Come to the conference to find out what it's all about!

Communicating is hard. It took thousands of years just for man to develop a common language. Even in our current "enlightened" state, we should not expect it to be easy to develop a common, complete method for describing all the myriad features of a printed circuit board. And it’s not. Some 50 years after Gerber was invented, we continue to rely on it as the main format for expressing design intent to downstream production. But the Gerber format was never intended to include the increasingly complex data we ask it to, and its limits are showing. But while other, more “intelligent” formats have been proposed, none has taken hold. A new consortium, backed by a Who’s Who of OEMs and EDA vendors, including Harris, Ericsson, Fujitsu, nVidia, Sanmina-SCI, Cadence,Zuken, Adiva and Downstream Technologies, has emerged and, under the auspices of the trade association IPC, seeks to develop and accelerate adoption of an open, neutrally maintained global standard to encourage innovation, improveefficiency and reduce costs. This presentation is a trip through the decades of data transfer formats, from IPC-D-350 to ODB++, looking at why those formats have failed to become true industry standards, and provides a look forward at what could, at long last, be the panacea designers have been asking for since the 1970s.

Zuken Power Integrity Advance is the solution for power distribution system analysis and design including IC input impedance management and decoupling issues. These days, without a correct design of your power distribution on a board, the design simply might fail. The increased number of power supplies are defining new design boundaries, as well the increasing number of pins and active outputs. These pins need to be charged, voltages have to be delivered (to reach logic levels) resulting into increased power consumption. Power Integrity allows a concurrent analysis of the power distribution system (PDS). Specialist will be on hand to demonstrate and present on this very hot topic.

In the current product development cycle, the processes for product planning and product design are disconnected. The goal of this session is to understand the facets of the planning stage and what factors are considered in the decision making process. We then explore how to connect the planning phase to the design phase with System Planner.

The EE just gave you design requirements that you now need to incorporate into your PCB design; but how to map them into constraints? This session articulates how to map requirements into constraints in Lightning and shows you how to realize them in P.R.Editor. No previous Lightning experience is necessary.

Document Management issues - we all have them! DS-2 EDT and DocGen are powerful tools that have the capacity to automatically generate and distribute design outputs and documentation. They are also able to distribute documents and files to groups in your organization such as manufacturing and test as well as interface with other ERP systems (SAP, eNovia). This session will showcase the intricate details and capabilities of these tools.

Want to learn some tips that with make you Lightning fast in the design process? You won't want to miss this year’s premier tips and tricks event where we will bring in one of our Lightning Masters to show tips using CR-5000 Lighting. Of course we will continue to include tips from the entire CR-5000 suite, and just wait until you see who our surprise customer tips-n-tricks-oligist will be this year!

The CR-5000 tool Board List Processor gives you a simple way to extract information from the board, such as components, footprints, padstacks and more. This session will demonstrate Board List Processor’s use for custom reports and data extraction as well as how to automate it.

The methodology presented is based on Zuken CR-5000's built-in capability to capture placement data in text files. It allows several engineers to do component placement independently and in parallel on different sections of a printed circuit board (PCB). The same method can be used to copy reference placement topologies. This session explores how we use the features in our design environment.

Current tools and methodologies for PCB Documentation are essentially workarounds that, rather than automating, in fact create obstacles to quickly producing detailed and accurate PCB documentation. What is needed is a new approach to PCB documentation. DownStream Technologies will introduce a completely new approach for creating PCB documentation.

Zuken's E³.series is a software product family which is used in a lot of different industry segments. That's why the enhancements for each new version cover many different areas of electrical engineering. This presentation will show an overview of the new functionality in the latest version E³.series 2011 and the direction for future developments in E³.series.

Teamcenter’s Unified architecture offers a complete out of the box solution for managing your product data. Zuken has collaborated with Siemens to create an adapter that communicates directly with Unified. We will discuss mechatronics integration by discussing the PDM management adapters: Design and Document (DDM); Article (Material); BOM; Wire Harness (WHM).

Zuken’s Work In Process environment has grown significantly over the past year. Learn how real-time data management can boost your engineering productivity, and provide a new level of traceability. E³.ePLM covers the full functionality of document management, BOM handling and material information exchange between our WIP data management system, E³.ePLM, and the design tools in E³.series.

Whether you’ve defined the "from-to" system connectivity today or 10 years ago using a spreadsheet, ECAD, or text file, it is added effort to manually create a representative schematic. With E³.series Wiring Diagram Generator that connectivity is automatically transformed into a representative schematic. You did it before....don’t do it again!

Each year Zuken introduces enhancements with new versions of E³.series. In this session we’ll take an 'E³.series Tour' of top features introduced from the latest version of E³.series 2010 and E³.series 2011.

Our aim was to create an intelligent electrical locomotive schematic and use it as a central data source to generate subsequent manufacturing documentation. Aided by E³.series software, Electro Motive Diesels has accomplished its goal, reducing manual transcription efforts and providing consistency of information. The E³.series Teamcenter integration has allowed the required PDM capabilities.

A session to look at 3 different ways the E³.cable application can be applied to solve customer design problems. Showing design methods, working processes, and customized scripts for signaling systems, rail solutions, and power generation and distribution. Power point presentation and live demo session.

Different design department requirements demanded that we create multiple wire list and assembly list output formats. Different groups design just cable assemblies, whole systems or wired chassis assemblies. These format types will be discussed along with the additional attributes that were added. The programming involved will also be discussed.

So you’ve picked E³.Series as the cable design software on your engineering "team", however E³.Series is late coming to the game. The game has begun and the starting team is already on the field! How do you get E³.Series accepted and into the game as a productive team member? This story details AAI’s successes and obstacles in the struggle to reach the goal line. Although AAI’s situation is not unique, it is almost certain that all current and new users have or will experience such pain and joy. This discussion will deal with issues ranging from: upper management, the everyday user, librarians, process issues, and tool management.

When used by Design Engineering, E³.Cable produces top-quality manufacturing drawings of cables. If used earlier in a program by Systems Engineering, E³.Cable becomes a powerful Interface Management Tool, providing the perfect medium to communicate system architecture and interface details to the rest of the engineering community.

Component selection is critical in the product design cycle.  The designer must review and compare component data so that an immediate accurate selection can be made.  EDA libraries can incorporate component management systems where specifications, life cycle, supplier, simulation models and assembly information is stored, facilitating proper component selection.

Utilizing databases to support EDA management allows CADSTAR the flexibility to incorporate your existing component data management database into a powerful integrated EDA management system. This presentation will discuss ways to merge your existing component database with the CADSTAR library database, allowing a single source for component management.

Constraint management is crucial to your design’s success. CADSTAR Constraint Browser and Topology Editor enable PCB designers to collaborate more efficiently with engineers when using high-speed constraints. The ability to manage them in the schematic provides a true front-end design flow to the PCB layout. Come and learn how to get it right the first time.

Zuken Power Integrity Advance is the solution for power distribution system analysis and design including IC input impedance management and decoupling issues. These days, without a correct design of your power distribution on a board, the design simply might fail. The increased number of power supplies are defining new design boundaries, as well the increasing number of pins and active outputs. These pins need to be charged, voltages have to be delivered (to reach logic levels) resulting into increased power consumption. Power Integrity allows a concurrent analysis of the power distribution system (PDS). Specialist will be on hand to demonstrate and present on this very hot topic.

Many of today’s PCB designs contain one or more FPGA or BGA devices. The fan-out and routing of these devices is a key to completion of the design and will often dictate the number of routing layers required. This presentation will focus on the tools and techniques available in P.R.Editor HS and the Dragon Router to optimize this process.

Using Board Modeler Lite with CADSTAR has never been so easy. The Internal integration of going from 2D to 3D is done with the click of a mouse Now, using the new 3D parts creation wizard makes it even faster to realize your design in 3D. Come and learn the finer points of Board Modeler to solve your 3D Verification form, fit, and functional challenges.

Modern trends in energy efficient power electronic designs are pushing PCB design technology to the limits where high voltage is concerned. Such applications are growing exponentially in military, automotive, aerospace and space sectors. This presentation discusses techniques for exploiting spacing class methods to manage these limits.

Two design examples are presented making use of Zuken's P.R. Editor XR5000HS and Signal Integrity in a CADSTAR environment, showing how 'Rule of Thumb' guesswork is eliminated when creating PCB designs that utilize components and system architectures demanding strict impedance control and length matching.

This class shows you how batch programs can help you do your job better. For example, you’ll learn how to modify component locations in Excel, make multiple technologies from a single tech file, and manipulate PCB data bases outside of BD and CAD File Manager, all via batch programs. You’ll also learn the basics of creating .bat files and making scripts that call batch programs. Lastly, you’ll learn how to add these scripts into the CAD File Manager. Note that some of the batch programs discussed may require a license beyond the BD application (product number ZX0501) license. No prior programming experience required.

These days, recycle is a household word. Recycle the paper, recycle the cans, the bottles, the plastics. How about this – recycle the design? Yes, recycle is just another word for reuse, and of course design reuse is nothing new in the design world. But do you know how to do it using CR-5000? If you don’t know how or you want to learn the best approach and reinvent that design, this class is for you. We will teach you the steps from the schematic to layout, that will help you to recycle that design so you can save time and money over and over again. Once you finish this course you will be able to say you know how to Re-cycle, Re-use, and Re-invent using CR-5000.

Are you curious to learn about the details of what’s new in E³.series 2011? Let’s begin by using a dynamic 'Driver Swing' right into E³.series 2011. This hands-on training course is your opportunity to take a look at what’s new and walk away with the knowledge to apply what you’ll learn to your current environment and design process. No matter which version you are currently using, you will find that it will be a natural and easy swing to use E³.series 2011.

Once properly configured, creating wiring diagrams from connection lists with E³.series Wiring Diagram Generation is like magic, "Auto-magic". This training session is your first step to becoming a Wiring Diagram Generation "Auto-magician" by exploring and practicing how to configure, setup, and run the E³.series 2011 Wiring Diagram Generation module to create wiring diagrams from just about any from/to connection list.