Zuken CR-8000

Zuken, a pioneer in the EDA and ECAD/CAE industry, has introduced the latest edition of its system-level PCB design environment, CR-8000. The updated edition has received numerous enhancements aimed at ensuring performance, quality and manufacturability. With today’s most advanced PCB technologies including high-density and high-speed, multi-board designs having unique requirements, the CR-8000 2018 delivers new solutions to address these requirements.

The Zuken CR-8000 is the industry’s most advanced PCB design environment with true system-level engineering and 2D/3D multi-board implementation capabilities. The CR-8000 family of applications spans the complete PCB engineering lifecycle: from system level planning through implementation and design for manufacturability. The CR-8000 environment also includes 3D IC packaging and chip/package/board co-design.

The focus of the new version is on enabling efficient front-loading of design constraints and specifications to the design creation process, coupled with sophisticated placement and routing capabilities for physical layout. This will increase efficiency and ensure quality through streamlined collaboration across the PCB design chain.

Front-loading of design intent from Design Gateway to Design Force has been achieved by adding an enhanced, unified constraint browser for both applications. This enables hardware engineers to assign topology templates, modify differential signals and assign clearance classes to individual signals. Using a rule stack editor during the circuit design phase, hardware engineers can now load design rules that include differential pair routing and routing width stacks directly from the design rule library into their schematic. Here they can modify and assign selected rules for improved cross talk and differential pair control. Finally, an enhanced component browser enables component variants to be managed in the schematic, and assigned in a user-friendly table.