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January 28, 2021
Tech Tip: How to start a Multi-Board Design in CR-8000
Multi-board designs are becoming increasingly important as today's products require higher speeds and more complex circuits in smaller dimensions. There is more than one way to create multi-board layouts in CR-8000.
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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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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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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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April 21, 2020
Legacy 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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April 17, 2020
Working Remotely with CR-8000 Tools
During the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, we are all experiencing changes in our day-to-day lives. While we’re all staying safe at home, we’re now also working at home. At Zuken, we’re working with customers daily to address their business needs.
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April 02, 2020
Setting up to Work from Home using Zuken Software
During this time of Covid-19 we’re all trying to keep the wheels of business turning, and that means that most of us are now preparing to work from home. This post points out some of the things to consider when setting up a home office, including how to set up your Zuken software.
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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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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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July 11, 2019
How to Calculate Trace Length from Time Delay Value for High-speed Signals
To keep a good high-speed signal quality from driver to receiver on a PCB is not an easy task for designers. One of the most challenging issues is managing the propagation delay and relative time delay mismatches. Let me take you through the process...
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June 27, 2019
Who’s afraid of DDR4?
What IC designers do to help us route high-speed PCBs
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June 13, 2019
Get to Know Your SPICEs
PCB designers typically have little or no experience with SPICE applications. No worries, follow along with me and get to know your SPICEs!
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March 22, 2018
Mastering Power Integrity: First Get Your Power Distribution System Right
I don’t think I’m generalizing when I say that designers working on complex high speed designs really don’t want to expend a lot of time and effort dealing with power integrity problems. And they especially don’t want to do it using tools that are detached from their design flow. In today’s complex PCBs, we’re talking advanced processors, complex FPGAs and superfast memories, which all share various voltage ranges.
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I don’t think I’m generalizing when I say that designers working on complex high speed designs really don’t want to expend a lot of time and...
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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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November 09, 2010
S-Parameters: Microwave goes Mainstream for High-Speed PCB Design Part 2
Last week I introduced you to the concept of S-Parameters, and now I’m going to explain a bit more about measuring them and simulating with S-Parameter models.
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