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PCB Subsystem and IC Packaging Design
Zuken’s CR-8000 is the most advanced PCB design platform in the industry with architecture design and verification, multi-board PCB layout with MCAD integration, SI/PI analysis, and chip/package/board co-design. CR-8000 is for your most challenging PCB subsystem designs.
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CR-8000 Highlights
What CR-8000 can do for you
Partition complex systems into multiple connected PCBs
Manage IC, package and PCB in one single environment
Control releases, revisions and configurations with integrated data management
PCB Subsystem Architecture and Verification
System Planner is the industry’s only hardware architecture design and verification tool that is fully integrated with detailed PCB and wire harness design. As products become more complex, optimizing the architecture is more critical than ever.
System Planner combines four disciplines into one design and analysis experience. Design multi-board systems with imported MCAD enclosures. Floor plan your design across multiple boards for optimal routing and connectivity. Verify cost and weight targets with parametric analysis. Move your design seamlessly to a detailed design.
System PlannerRedefining PCB Design with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an evolving and promising tool in the field of PCB design. Additionally, whether you’re a design veteran or a newcomer, AI offers many benefits that can make your life easier. However, it’s not without its challenges. As technology progresses, the only question is: Are you ready for the AI-driven future of PCB design?
AI PCB Design
PCB Subsystem Design
As product complexity grows, PCB design must be considered in the context of the subsystem. A PCB subsystem design platform includes support multi-board design and analysis, MCAD integration, and wire harness design. CR-8000 goes beyond the subsystem to include chip/package/board co-design.
As companies move to Digital Engineering and model-based design processes, the need for a subsystem design solution is critical. Detailed design teams will be handed a subsystem for implementation, not a PCB. CR-8000 is built for subsystem implementation.
Design ForceSignal, Power, and EMI Analysis
Today’s complex boards or multi-board systems require detailed planning and analysis. CR-8000 provides you with all the tools to build high fidelity boards with integrated signal and power integrity analysis with pre-layout planning. Full board EMI analysis for fast and efficient EMI screening.
Third-party integrations with Ansys and Keysight bring additional capabilities from the industry leaders.
Analysis
Integrated IC Package Design
Design Force offers an intuitive, integrated environment for designing single and multi-die packages for wire-bond, flip-chip, and high-density advanced packaging. Designers can start designs with early prototype input of chip and package data from the library, reuse data from IC layout tools, and take advantage of parametric wizards to streamline the creation of the system.
IC PackagingEngineering Library & Data Management
PLM systems are excellent at managing manufacturing data. But companies need to manage component libraries and work-in-process data on a day-to-day basis prior to release for manufacturing. Zuken’s DS-CR provides WIP design data management, design collaboration, project management, design re-use, “where-used” traceability, and much more.
DS-CR is also fully integrated with leading PLM systems for the manufacturing hand-off or component information synchronization. Component information can be automatically synchronized with supply chain partners.
DS-CR
PCB Design for Manufacturing
DFM Center enables designers to handle the increasing complexity and diversity of today’s PCBs while ensuring high final product quality, and accurate outputs for the manufacturing processes. With a robust set of features for data preparation and embedded verification to ensure manufacturing specifications are met, DFM Center addresses the challenges of the manufacturing process.
DFM CenterWire Harness Design Support
As products get more complicated, the siloed approach to detailed design is missing the mark. Wire harness pin assignments are commonly out of sync with the PCB. A subsystem design approach including PCB, wire harness, and MCAD eliminates those common errors.
Many companies complete the PCB prior to the harness design. Zuken has embraced this approach by using a standard PCB manufacturing output, IPC-2581, to design the wire harness. Zuken’s E3.series imports IPC-2581 directly from CR-8000 eliminating design errors.
E3.series
CR-8000 Resources
Check out our latest webinars, white papers, blog posts, tech tips & more
- Webinar
September 15, 2023
AI-Based PCB Place and Route is All About Machine Learning
Webinar, Zuken USA, AI PCB Design
- Webinar
August 25, 2023
Discovering the Power of CR-8000 2023 for Advanced PCB Design
Webinar, Zuken USA
- Webinar
July 25, 2023
Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data: Making Better Design Decisions with SiliconExpert and Zuken
Webinar, SiliconExpert, Zuken USA
- Webinar
October 26, 2022
Flex PCB Design Guidelines for Manufacturing
Webinar, Sierra Circuits, Zuken, CR-8000 Release 2020
- Webinar
June 16, 2022
What To Do When One Component Threatens Your Build – Zuken and SiliconExpert
Webinar, SiliconExpert, Zuken USA
- 2020 Technical Webinars
October 01, 2020
Overcome Component Obsolescence and Availability with Zuken DS-CR
One of the biggest problems facing companies that design and produce electronic products is component obsolescence and availability. There is nothing worse than finding out that there is a supply issue with a design component at a late-stage design review or early pilot run.
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CR-8000 Products
We can help you select the right products
- Products
October 01, 2018
System Planner
System Planner provides a system-level design environment for the architectural planning and optimization of electronic systems and products. It enables engineers to optimize partitioning and performance of multi-board systems and maximize design reuse, while eliminating the need to re-enter up-front planning data into the design tools during detailed design.
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Architecture Design and Validation
- Products
October 01, 2018
Design Gateway
PCB Design Creation - Design Gateway is a platform for logical circuit design and verification of single and multi-board system-level electronic designs. It supports a true system-level circuit design in which individual circuits can be represented and connected as blocks.
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System Level Circuit Engineering
- Products
October 01, 2018
Design Force
Design Force combines traditional 2D design with native 3D design and the latest human interface techniques, accelerated graphics and almost instantaneous rendering and refreshing. It is the fastest, most effective PCB design solution available today. Design Force enables design teams to layout their designs in the context of a complete system or product.
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3D Multi-board PCB Design
- Products
January 03, 2019
Design Force Advanced Packaging
Design Force offers an intuitive, integrated environment for designing single and multi-die packages for wire-bond, flip-chip, and high density advanced packaging. Designers can start designs with early prototype input of chip and package data from the library, reuse data from IC layout tools, and take advantage of parametric wizards to streamline the creation of the system
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IC Package and PCB Co-design
- Products
October 01, 2018
DFM Center
PCB Design for Manufacturing (DFM) enables designers to handle the increasing complexity and diversity of today’s PCBs, while ensuring high final product quality, and accurate outputs for the manufacturing processes. With a robust set of features for data preparation and embedded verification to ensure manufacturing specifications are met...
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PCB Design for Manufacturing
- Products
October 01, 2018
Electronic Library & Data Management
Zuken’s engineering data management platform DS-CR has been created to support the specific demands of PCB design data management. It combines multi-site library, design data and configuration management into a unified engineering environment.
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PCB Design Data Management