Innoveda has significantly enhanced its PowerPCB tool suite with a complete high-speed routing solution designed to help users automatically or interactively manage and meet the thousands of signal constraints they encounter during the printed circuit board (PCB) layout process.
PowerPCB Version 5.0 includes new BlazeRouter 5.0 and BlazeRouter HSD (high-speed design) options, which help prevent signal integrity problems and speed time to market. The new version also includes a new Fast Interactive Route Editor, FIRE, unmatched in capability for interactive routing of high-speed signals, according to Innoveda. In addition, PowerPCB now has a new toolkit for advanced packaging.
According to Chris Crowley, EnSigna Lab application engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, "High-speed design tools are critical to our operations, and we have extensive experience using PowerPCB, BlazeRouter and other Innoveda design tools. From a high-speed standpoint, the new version of BlazeRouter stands out as very powerful, customisable and extremely easy to use."
"Our customers who deal with highly complex designs, with hundreds or even thousands of high-speed constraints, face constant pressure to design faster," said Joe Dalton, vice president, chief marketing officer at Innoveda. "Previously, managing and meeting these constraints and component densities during PCB layout meant time-consuming, error-prone manual routing and checking. With this new release, board designers can choose to route signals automatically or interactively to meet their high-speed design constraints, and verify that they have been met."
PowerPCB Version 5.0 with BlazeRouter 5.0 and BlazeRouter HSD automatically routes geometric high-speed constraints including minimum and maximum length, matched lengths, and differential pairs. With the addition of Component Entry Rules, routing to and from components with fine pitches can be achieved easily. New utilities verify that all design constraints, including high speed, are met.
Innoveda's FIRE, a shape-based, gridless interactive route editor, offers superior push, shove and plowing features, multiple unique Design Rule Check (DRC) modes, and new trace editing features.
For further information contact Kobus van Rooyen, ASIC Design Services, 011 315 8316, [email protected].
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