System-Level PCB Design

Design Gateway allows you to design a true system-level electronic circuit design by creating a board-level block or connector symbol for each individual circuit, and connecting them together to define a complete system. Engineers can avoid maintaining spreadsheets of system interconnects, and manage them with intelligent graphical design.

With the power of the multi-board design technology in Design Gateway, you have the option of selecting each board symbol and generating a netlist for each PCB or create a full system-level netlist to support the complete analysis of a product.

Whether you are challenged with the complex requirements of DDR2/3/4 or faced with incorporating the latest high-speed interfaces, the Constraint Browser within Design Gateway enables you to define constraints for any combination of nets, extended nets, differential pairs, and busses using a spreadsheet approach. In the same instance, a user can continue adding layout rules for nets and manage complex spacing rules within net groups and between net groups.

With embedded simulation and verification, and flexibility to interface with best-in-class tools, Design Gateway reduces errors and improves your design cycle time by utilizing the same schematic for both PCB layout and simulation. Whether you require analog or digital simulation, verifying polarized capacitors are connected correctly, or insuring that the simulated signal voltage doesn’t exceed power ratings of a component, you can accomplish all this in a co-design flow using Design Gateway.

The benefits of design reuse are well-known, but implementing a methodology that is flexible, easy to use, and can take advantage of data management was not fully realized until Design Gateway. Design Gateway introduces a flexible approach that allow you to design with certified circuits, use a circuit from an existing design as a template for a new design, or creating a multi-PCB design – using either a top-down or bottom-up approach. Block circuits can be saved in a library for you to catalog and search and add to a design. Revision control can be used to govern any changes to a circuit – all part of Design Gateway’s robust approach to block circuit management.

A simulation cockpit for Spice simulation tools (PSpice, LTSpice, HSPICE).

Circuit DR-Navi helps design teams consolidate engineering expertise and best practices into a central knowledge base integrated with the design process. During logical electronic circuit design, engineers can access a standard set of requirements or create project-specific instructions to drive design guidelines across the PCB design flow.

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Graphical Pin Manager (GPM), offers an effective FPGA / PCB co-design environment providing support for the latest devices offered by FPGA vendors, such as Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, and Microsemi.

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Design Gateway’s Circuit Adviser enables engineers to conduct concurrent, advanced electrical rule checks during logical circuit creation. Users can specify rules and conditions, create check results, cross-probe results with the design and generate summary reports.

Design Gateway Viewer is a native schematic data viewer with comprehensive analysis capabilities, such as cross-probing, constraint viewing, signal classes and many more.

Scenario EX enables to check the electrical characteristics and the connection topology of signal tracks. It allows “What-If Scenarios” of both schematic and layout data to optimize the behaviour of a circuit. It can be used both for interactive design and design verification.

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