- Blog
September 24, 2020
Tech Tip: Design Force 3D Technology Editor
In Design Force you can edit your board Technology using the 3D Technology Editor. In the 3D technology edit window, you can perform the following operations to edit the technology for the board.
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September 10, 2020
Powerful SI/PI/EMI PCB Simulation Environment Reduces Analysis Time by 86%
What do you do if your next project is high speed, with exceptionally stringent EMI requirements, and has to be complete in less time than you’ve ever developed a product before? When the Ontec team found themselves facing that predicament, they turned to Zuken. Why?
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August 25, 2020
Tech-Tip: Checking Data Outside the Board
Board design rule checks only check up to the board outline. If you had dropped or moved some data outside the board outline there was no check for this until now...
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August 20, 2020
Exploring What’s New in CR-8000 2020
What drives the features that are added or updated in a new release? The majority of the changes or additions in any Zuken tool release are customer-driven. Our customers provide valuable insight into emerging technologies, process and methodology changes, and the direction in which their EDA needs are taking them. This post focuses on the high points of the CR-8000 2020 release.
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Juli 07, 2020
Tech-Tip: Creating a Connector Pin Netlist
Checking the pinout of your connectors is an important part of creating your printed circuit board. Checking your pin connections can save you from a costly re-spin of your circuit board. This can be done using the Constraint Browser in Design Force. By default, the Constraint Browser does not show this information.
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März 26, 2020
Multi-board design for applications with different voltages
The benefits of developing all boards of a system concurrently on a single CAD canvas. Stacking PCBs, as opposed to connecting with cables, in multi-board design is a current and highly popular trend, as manufacturing costs are reduced and reliability improved.
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Januar 21, 2020
Tech Tip: Design Force Cut Land
When design space is at a premium, sometimes traces can be at risk of being exposed by any misregistration of the solder mask. If you have this situation use the “Cut Land” option under the Track tab in Design Force.
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September 19, 2019
Tech-Tip: Setting a temporary grid in Design Force
Offsetting your Grid can be very useful when your component pads do not fall on the current Grid.
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- Blog
August 01, 2019
6 NEW Routing Enhancements in CR-8000 Design Force 2019
With every software release, you’ll find hundreds of enhancements, and CR-8000 Design Force 2019 is not an exception. Some are flashy and exciting, while others are, well, more utilitarian. But each and every one of them makes the product better. In this post, I’ll review my favorite 6 new routing enhancements in CR-8000 Design Force 2019.
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Juli 19, 2019
Tech Tip: How to Transfer ABL File From CR-8000 Design Force to Keysight ADS Momentum
This video illustrates how to import and export ABL file from CR-8000 Advanced PCB Design Software Design Force tool to Keysight Technology’s Advanced Design Systems (ADS) Momentum Tool.
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Mai 28, 2019
Tech-Tip: CR-8000 Design Force – Benefits Of Export/Import Of Data Resource Files
If you migrated from CR-5000 Board Designer you might recall my ToolTip a few years back, specific to using the Parameter Resource file, in order to save and reuse settings you define within the tool such as route parameters or dimension parameters. The data resource file in the Design Force is the equivalent to that parameters resource file.
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Mai 26, 2019
Tech-Tip: Enhancement of the Operation That Moves Vias (Activ-45 Move)
A function that pushes tracks away and avoids obstacles when a via is moved has been added. This is a great advantage for the designer when routing. What use to take a lot of time to move traces and vias to move a via to a new location has been greatly enhanced using the “Activ-45 Router”.
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Mai 07, 2019
Tech-Tip: DF 2019 New Feature: How to do checking the unconnected length
In DF 2019 we have new feature call “Checking the Unconnected Length”. But this feature is not in the What’s New online help, since it is execute by simple macro syntax...
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Januar 29, 2019
Tech Tip: Using Design Force Rule Editor to Calculate Track Impedance
Calculate the track width value from the characteristic impedance and layer configuration by using a field solver.
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Februar 06, 2018
Tech Tip: How to Generate Offset Vias from a Via in CR-8000 Design Force
CR-8000 Design Force 2017 has improved the offset via function by adding efficiency in pulling out tracks from vias, creating BGA designs and build-up designs. The controls are based on the following...
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Design Force 2017 has improved the offset via function by adding efficiency in pulling out tracks from vias, creating BGA designs and build-up des...
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August 29, 2017
A Few Thoughts on Avoiding DDR4 Layout Problems
DDR4, the fourth generation of DDR SDRAM technology, is the latest and greatest SDRAM standard and will continue to be until the fifth generation is released. The new standard features a point-to-point architecture that offers superior timing margins.
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This new approach makes it much easier to, for example, swap pins between banks, to achieve better length control.