Physical Design

PCB design software CR-5000: Physical design - SCREENSHOT

Intuitive layout tools for complex PCB design challenges

Zuken's most advanced PCB design software CR-5000 includes intuitive layout tools, fully integrated with system design and analysis as well as layout verification, enabling an interactive work flow between schematic entry and board layout. The powerful placement and routing tools of CR-5000 are optimized for speed and accuracy, tackling today’s complex PCB design challenges with creativity and intelligent automation.

 

CR-5000 Board DesignerLayout, 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.