System Design
Designing an electronic product right-first-time and meeting tight delivery deadlines requires a seamlessly integrated design environment supporting electronic system design and analysis, PCB layout and verification, and production preparation. With Design Gateway, CR-5000 provides a complete solution for design creation, verification, and re-use: powerful schematic design 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 Gateway opens up the potential of complete system circuit planning and schematic design, and forms the core of the front-load design process of CR-5000, 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.
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. Zuken's Constraints Management software tool provides an easy-to-use spread-sheet-like GUI, supporting constraints information sharing and updating, and cross-probing to schematics and layout.
CR-5000 Lightning enables circuit timing and signal integrity simulation from Design Gateway schematics. 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.
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.
CR-5000 supports design re-use, allowing engineers to utilize proven and tested logical circuits and layouts from previous projects again and again.