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What is PCB design? Using PCB Design Software you can create your schematic design, layout and route components together which can then be manufactured into a physical circuit board.
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October 18, 2021
Flex PCB Design for Cost-effective Panelization
PCB Design, CR-8000, CR-8000 ADM, Blog
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October 07, 2021
Automatic Block Update: Automatically generate FPGA pin assignments in Design Gateway designs

Zuken's Custom Development Group has developed a solution that enables simultaneous IC, connector, and PCB development by automating the updating of pin assignments in PCB design.

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September 20, 2021
What PDN Target Impedance Means for PCB Designers

PDN impedance is becoming more and more of a headache for PCB designers as IC vendors are defining increasingly tight so-called ‘target impedance limits’. This article explains what PDN impedance means for PCB designers and what to pay particular attention to.

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July 08, 2021
Top 5 Benefits for PCB Designers in CR-8000 Design Force 2021

CR-8000 Design Force 2021 offers a wealth of new features and improved functionality. Check out the top benefits for PCB Designers in the newest release.

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June 03, 2021
Is 3D Electronics Design keeping up with today's Trends?

For many years, the layout of a printed circuit board in 2D was sufficient for most mainstream technologies. Today, however, product developers in the electronics industry are facing new challenges, triggered by megatrends such as the Internet of Things. Can today's CAD tools deliver on today's advanced requirements and harness the power of new technologies?

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May 20, 2021
Zuken joins Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium progressivKI

The BMWI is funding a multi-million Euro research consortium in the area of artificial intelligence research where Zuken is collaborating as one of the industry software partners.

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May 06, 2021
PCB Design Data Management: Expectation vs Reality

From our everyday life, we know many examples where our expectations and reality do not quite match. PCB design data management is no exception.

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April 08, 2021
EMC for PCB design: anything but black magic

EMC problems are often responsible for re-design cycles in PCB design practice. Due to ever shorter innovation cycles of for example cell phones or IoT applications, such as fitness trackers or smartwatches, and many other electronic products, these time-consuming re-design cycles should be avoided under all circumstances.

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November 05, 2020
Printed circuit board shot into space

Since 2012, the FED has been honoring outstanding designers with the PCB design award. One of this year's winning designs was even into space.

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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 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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June 30, 2020
CR-8000 2020 Supports Electronic Subsystem Design

CR-8000 2020 is Zuken’s flagship PCB design platform, and I’m pleased to share some of the most exciting details of the new product release with you. But before we get into the new product release discussion, you may be wondering why we call it a platform and not a tool. CR-8000 2020 has all the bells and whistles for electronic subsystem development.

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May 21, 2020
Singing from the Same Page

In the race to industry 4.0 consistent data is vital for successful digitalization. One of the biggest threats are data silos. Data silos describe the storage of data that remains under the control of one department. Therefore it is typically isolated from the rest of the organization or lives on network folders that have no access control, read-and-write or version control. 

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April 21, 2020
Legacy ECAD Data Management and Migration with CR-8000

In today’s global value chains, data exchange and re-reuse are vital to support collaboration and productivity. But most data formats are proprietary. For any organization with an extensive database of ECAD data, the need for data migration will eventually arise.

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March 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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October 17, 2019
Be First to Market with DDR5!

Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) is the next-generation standard for random-access memory (RAM). The new specification promises to bring chips that have much higher performance than the existing DDR4 modules, as well as lower power consumption. Let us show you how you can be first to market with DDR5!

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