CADSTAR: Price / Performance PCB design software

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CADSTAR: Price / Performance PCB Design

CADSTAR, Zuken’s powerful and easy-to-use, excellent price/performance solution for PC-based PCB design, allows an intuitive and complete design flow for EDA engineers and designers alike, from the initial schematics and then PCB design to manufacturing output. It spans schematic capture, placement, routing, library creation and management, signal integrity and EMC analysis, along with the production of manufacturing data.

Latest News

MCAD and ECAD speak the same language with CADSTAR Board Modeler Lite

(Released: 10 Jan 2012)

Zuken announces a new version of Board Modeler Lite that offers significant productivity enhancements during board layout design. Board Modeler Lite 6.1 – available now with CADSTAR 13.0 – bridges the process between MCAD and ECAD design flows by offering a common platform to communicate between the two disciplines.

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Increased design flexibility with CADSTAR 13.0 Constraint Browser and Topology Editor (7 Dec 2011)
New Power Integrity Advance module launched for CADSTAR 13.0 (29 Nov 2011)
Experience greater integration for collaboration with CADSTAR 13.0 release (8 Nov 2011)
Zuken offers faster design and improved communications between logical design and PCB layout (6 Oct 2011)

Please visit the press releases section for more CADSTAR news.

Featured Events

PCB West 2012

(Date: 25 Sep 2012 to 27 Sep 2012)

UP Media Group Inc., a leader in delivering targeted events to the PCB supply chain, is bringing PCB West 2012 back to the Silicon Valley September 25 - 27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Come along and join us at PCB West to find out the latest product highlights of CR-8000, CR-5000, CADSTAR and DS-2.

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For more forth-coming CADSTAR events, please check the Events Calendar.

Key product downloads

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CADSTAR General Overview (Jul 09) Price / Performance PCB Design Tags: Product Brochure	1.2 MB Please choose a language:
CADSTAR Express V13.0 (Nov 11) Evaluation Software All the functionality of CADSTAR 13.0, limited to 300 pins and 50 components, plus the opportunity to experience Zuken's advanced P.R.Editor XR 2000. More Details... Tags: Software	123.0 MB You must register for a Zuken.com user account or login to download this file.
CADSTAR Design Viewer V13.0 (Nov 11) The CADSTAR Design Viewer is a free product that lets you share and access CADSTAR design data very easily on any of your preferred Windows platforms. More Details... Tags: Software	73.5 MB You must register for a Zuken.com user account or login to download this file.
CADSTAR Place and Route Editor (May 12) CADSTAR Place and Route Editor (P.R.Editor) is an integral part of the CADSTAR solution. Using the latest algorithms for interactive and automatic placement and routing, it helps achieve optimal routing results. Tags: Datasheets	748 KB You must register for a Zuken.com user account or login to download this file.
CADSTAR Schematic Capture (Feb 12) Constraint driven technology to allow desing engineers to build in the required information for the PCB design early in the design cycle. Tags: Datasheets	481 KB You must register for a Zuken.com user account or login to download this file.

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CADSTAR General Overview (Jul 09)

Price / Performance PCB Design

CADSTAR Express V13.0 (Nov 11)

Evaluation Software

All the functionality of CADSTAR 13.0, limited to 300 pins and 50 components, plus the opportunity to experience Zuken's advanced P.R.Editor XR 2000. More Details...

CADSTAR Design Viewer V13.0 (Nov 11)

The CADSTAR Design Viewer is a free product that lets you share and access CADSTAR design data very easily on any of your preferred Windows platforms.
More Details...

CADSTAR Place and Route Editor (May 12)

CADSTAR Place and Route Editor (P.R.Editor) is an integral part of the CADSTAR solution. Using the latest algorithms for interactive and automatic placement and routing, it helps achieve optimal routing results.

CADSTAR Schematic Capture (Feb 12)

Constraint driven technology to allow desing engineers to build in the required information for the PCB design early in the design cycle.

CADSTAR: Price / Performance PCB Design

Latest News

MCAD and ECAD speak the same language with CADSTAR Board Modeler Lite