Physical Design
Intuitive layout tools for complex PCB design challenges
Layout, Placement & Routing
CR-5000 Board Designer facilitates the intelligent and smooth development of schematics into layout, allowing the designer to quickly and easily create, re-use or adapt designs. Everyday tasks are made intuitive and efficient for complex placement patterns, speeding up the most challenging implementations. Advanced interactive placement and routing tools are available – as well as fast automatic concurrent placement and an automatic router, capable of simultaneous routing of multiple nets.
Constraints Management
CR-5000 Constraint Manager guides users through a fully integrated, constraints-driven design methodology to meet high-speed performance requirements, eliminating unnecessary prototypes and re-engineering cycles. It provides an easy-to-use spread-sheet-like GUI, supporting constraints information sharing and updating, and cross-probing to schematics and layout.
Parallel Layout & Analysis
CR-5000 Lightning provides a fully integrated, complete signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC verification toolset. What-if analyses for changes to the layer stack, different track widths or track-to-track spacing, can be easily performed for optimizing single-ended or differential impedance, and crosstalk effects.
FPGA & PCB Co-Design
CR-5000 Graphical Pin Manager 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 also supports design re-use, allowing engineers to re-utilize proven and tested logical circuits, as well as layouts, from previous projects.
