Innoveda has announced it will unbundle the component applications of its ePlanner PCB signal integrity planning tool suite. Starting with Version 2, the CMS Planview and Scratchpad applications will be licensed and priced individually. The unbundling offers designers the flexibility of individually priced tools so they can purchase only what they need. Users also will benefit from a fully redesigned version of Scratchpad, the ePlanner topology design application. It enables PCB designers to model all trace parameters and lets the parameters be varied during analysis to produce multiple simulation runs or 'sweeps'.
Eliminating board spins
"ePlanner gives PCB designers all the necessary tools to design a more robust PCB, saving both time and money along the way," said Rick Almeida, Vice President of Marketing for Innoveda's Product Realization Group. "By planning a PCB design, testing its behavior and structure, and finding appropriate design constraints, multiple board spins and re-designs can become a thing of the past."
Customers using ePlanner during the design phase of a PCB can find, test, and eliminate signal integrity problems in the first PCB spin. PCB designers can analyse any and all PCB nets for potential signal integrity problems, and develop physical design constraints based on the analysis to help ensure a working end-product. The PCB physical constraints are established and evaluated through electrical analysis of the actual PCB design, imported to the ePlanner environment. Physical construction of a design, including net termination, net routing and scheduling, and component selection and placement all can be tested to ensure a quality design.
The ePlanner tools include: ePlanner CMS (Constraint Management System), a spreadsheet application for entering, testing and managing the physical and electrical constraints of a PCB design. ePlanner Planview, a prototyping application for PCB component placement and net routing. ePlanner Analysis, which utilises Innoveda's XTK transmission line and cross-talk simulation engine to enable PCB designers to analyse PCB nets and evaluate electrical results such as delay, overshoot, and cross-talk. ePlanner Scratchpad, the significantly enhanced general purpose net topology editor that will allow PCB designers to design net topologies or extract net topologies from an imported PCB design. ePlanner Scratchpad includes ePlanner Analysis.
For further information contact Kobus van Rooyen, ASIC Design Services, (011) 315 8316, [email protected]
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