System Design

Designing an electronic product right-the-first-time and meeting tight delivery deadlines requires a seamlessly integrated design environment supporting electronic system design and analysis, PCB layout and verification, and manufacturing output. Design Gateway, provides a complete solution for design creation, verification, and re-use: powerful schematic editor, constraints management, a wide range of analog, digital, mixed-signal, and multi-technology simulators, FPGA and PCB co-design, parts library management and documentation system.

Design Creation

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Design Gateway provides complete system circuit design, communicating system design intent throughout the entire design flow and automating the communication of design rules. This reduces design cost and time-to-market and eliminates unnecessary product prototypes and re-spins. Multiple schematic sheets can be edited simultaneously, and by multiple designers, facilitating efficient operation in large projects.

Constraints Manager

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CR-5000 Constraints Manager guides users through a fully integrated, constraints-driven design process to meet high-speed performance requirements, eliminating unnecessary prototypes and re-engineering cycles. Zuken's Constraints Manager provides an easy-to-use spread-sheet-like user interface, supporting constraints sharing and updating, and cross-probing to schematics and layout.

Parallel System Design and Analysis

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CR-5000 Lightning enables circuit timing and signal integrity simulation from Design Gateway circuit designs. Additionally, a wide range of analog, digital, mixed-signal, and multi-technology simulators interface directly with Design Gateway. Interfaces are available for HSPICE, PSpice, ADS, Active-HDL, ModelSim or Saber, supporting co-simulation of analog and digital functional blocks and programmable devices.

FPGA and PCB Co-Design

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Graphical Pin Manager (GPM) offers a straightforward FPGA and PCB co-design flow, from top-level HDL description to schematic symbols, as well as to the physical I/O information for layout, thus reducing design cycle time and optimizing system performance. It interfaces directly with state-of-the-art FPGA design tools Altera Quartus II, Xilinx ISE, Actel Libero, and Lattice ispLEVER.

Design Re-Use

CR-5000 supports design re-use, allowing engineers to utilize proven and tested logical circuits and layouts from previous projects again and again.