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Altium Designer Printed Circuit Boards are the central nervous system for every electronic product. The backbone of every great PCB design is the tools and talent of the designer. That’s why we take PCB design so seriously. Altium Designer combines precision, usability, Native 3D, and collaboration to enable engineers and designers to get complex PCB designs done right, the first time.Low Stress, Native 3D PCB Design for ProfessionalsAltium Designer is productivity focused electronics design software for professionals, incorporating unified stress-free schematic and Printed Circuit Board CAD functions with design verification, validation and formal release and reuse capabilities. Altium Designer is used by PCB designers and engineers to create new electronic gadgets for entertainment, industry, defence, and the well-being of people...

SystemVue ESL Software SystemVue is a focused electronic design automation (EDA) environment for electronic system-level (ESL) design. It enables system architects and algorithm developers to innovate the physical layer (PHY) of wireless and aerospace/defense communications systems and provides unique value to RF, DSP, and FPGA/ASIC implementers. As a dedicated platform for ESL design and signal processing realization, SystemVue replaces general-purpose digital, analog, and math environments. SystemVue \”speaks RF\”, cuts PHY development and verification time in half, and connects to your mainstream EDA flow.Key Benefits of SystemVue Best-in-class RF fidelity among today’s baseband/PHY environments – allows baseband designers to virtualize the RF and eliminate excess margin Superior integration with Test accelerates real-world maturity and streamlines your model-based design flow, from Architectures...

Graphic EditorNew Short Slot Compensation FunctionThe new Short slots compensation option in the Edit > Change menuenables you to run the short slot compensation process from the GraphicEditor, allowing you to add compensation, in length or angle, for slots thatare considered “too short”. You create more accurate slots, and can verifyand repair results in the Graphic Editor before the data are output.For details, see “Enable Short Slot Compensation in Graphic Editor”on page 19.New Mode By-Line in Feature to Drill PatternA new working mode, By-Line, was added to the Feature to Drill Patternoperation. This mode enables you to create sequences of pads which willbe located on line or arc skeletons without duplicate pads at the connectionpoint that belong to the two...

CST STUDIO SUITE 2015 CST is pleased to announce the 2015 version of its flagship electromagnetic simulation software CST STUDIO SUITE®. The result of years of research and development, CST STUDIO SUITE 2015 includes improvements and innovations at every level, from the optimized solver technology to the user interface and integration with other tools.CST Product RangeCST CST offers a wide range of EM simulation software to address design challenges across the electromagnetic spectrum, from static and low frequency to microwave and RF, for a range of applications, including EDA & electronics, EMC & EMI and charged particle dynamics. The centerpiece of CST’s product range is CST STUDIO SUITE®. This comprises CST’s complete set of 3D electromagnetic simulation tools, along with...

National Instruments Corporation, the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world\’s greatest engineering challenges, announced the release of Circuit Design Suite 14.0, is a suite that can be effectively used for the circuit designing. National Instruments Corporation, the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world\’s greatest engineering challenges, announced the release of Circuit Design Suite 14.0, is a suite that can be effectively used for the circuit designing. The NI Circuit Design Suite combines NI Multisim and Ultiboard software for a complete circuit design, simulation, validation, and layout platform. Multisim is an intuitive environment for circuit design. With advanced mixed-mode simulation and validation, this software offers professional tools...

Cadence Expands Sigrity 2015 Technology Portfolio with New Products, LPDDR4 Compliance Checks, and Flexible Licensing OptionsThe expanded Cadence® Sigrity™ technology portfolio offers: Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack Sigrity System Explorer, an updated power-aware system signal integrity (SI) feature Flexible purchasing options for PCB and IC package design and analysis Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-PackSigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack is a license that allows designers to run parallel computing tasks across four additional computers, thereby accelerating product creation time and tripling the speed of PCB extraction of signoff-accurate interconnect models. Sigrity PowerSI 3D EM Full-Wave Extraction tool Sigrity PowerSI Sigrity System ExplorerSigrity System Explorer features general-purpose topology exploration, enabling power-aware signal integrity and transient power integrity (PI) analysis across multiple fabrics. It can be...

Questa’s core simulation and debug engine The Questa® Advanced Simulator combines high performance and capacity simulation with unified advanced debug capabilities for the most complete native support of Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, SystemC, PSL and UPF. The Questa Advanced Simulator is the core simulation and debug engine of the Questa Verification Platform; the comprehensive advanced verification platform capable of reducing the risk of validating complex FPGA and SoC designs.Advanced Debug with Questa On-demand Web Seminar Questa spans the levels of abstraction required for complex SoC and FPGA design and verification from TLM (Transaction Level Modeling) through RTL, gates, and transistors and has superior support of multiple verification methodologies including Assertion Based Verification (ABV), the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) and the Universal...

ASIC and FPGA design Mentor Graphics was the first to combine single kernel simulator (SKS) technology with a unified debug environment for Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC. The combination of industry-leading, native SKS performance with the best integrated debug and analysis environment make ModelSim® the simulator of choice for both ASIC and FPGA designs. The best standards and platform support in the industry make it easy to adopt in the majority of process and tool flows.dvanced Code Coverage ModelSim’s advanced code coverage capabilities and ease of use lower the barriers for leveraging this valuable verification resource. The ModelSim advanced code coverage capabilities provide valuable metrics for systematic verification. All coverage information is stored in the Unified Coverage DataBase (UCDB), which is...

SEMCAD X Matterhorn SOLUTIONSSEMCAD X Matterhorn is a full-wave 3D electromagnetic simulation software, offering a novel suite of seamlessly integrated solutions tailored to address a wide variety of engineering challenges across a broad portfolio of simulation, design, and engineering applications. ANTENNA SOLUTION SEMCAD X Matterhorn ANTENNA software package is a full-wave FDTD simulation solution for solving all free space electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation challenges. The intuitive design flow allows for the efficient and rapid design and optimization of antennas and large radiating structures. As the most frequently applied solvers in near-field dosimetry, they have been extensively validated and documented according to the IEEE/IEC 62704-1 standard as well as by comparisons with measured data (> 200 publications). Comprehensive documentation is...

Accelerate Design Innovation with Design Compiler® Synopsys\’ Design Compiler® family of products in the Galaxy™ Implementation Platform maximizes your productivity with its complete solution for RTL synthesis and test, Design Compiler Graphical, uses advanced optimizations and shared technology with IC Compiler place-and-route to deliver best in class quality of results for your most challenging designs at all process nodes. In addition, it enables RTL designers to predict, visualize and alleviate routing congestion and to perform floorplan exploration prior to physical implementation. Design Compiler Graphical also produces physical guidance to IC Compiler that tightens timing and area correlation and speeds-up placement runtimes. Design Compiler Graphical is built upon DC Ultra™ synthesis that concurrently optimizes for timing, area, power and test and...