CADSTAR Schematic Capture is the natural choice for today's electronic engineers, allowing for all the complex design rules required for the layout process to be designed 'up front', delivering the shorter design cycles demanded by today's market. CADSTAR Schematics Capture allows for: Design reuse through Windows Copy and Paste; Cross probing; Up front design constraints for PCB; True type font; Complete Libraries: with over 14000 parts and 500 schematic symbols; Design Fields; Routing - including high speed rules; EMC and Signal Integrity; The user can also customize the user interface and add their own custom program using OLE.

CADSTAR is a Windows based integrated PCB design solution that fulfils the ever increasing technology demands of today's design engineers, allowing them to Be First™ to market with their products. With CADSTAR all the necessary tools to complete the most demanding of designs are at your fingertips, from Schematic Capture to Manufacturing, all accessible from a common user interface.

Features within the CADSTAR toolsets include advanced automatic placement, gridless routing technology and fast manufacturing output generation. From single-side to complex double-side, multilayer and SMT design, the CADSTAR tools will guide you through the design process and dramatically increase your productivity.

The manual, interactive and automatic routing capabilities of CADSTAR Route Editor 2000 have led the world for many years. With outstanding performance, completion and most importantly manufacturability of the final design, the CADSTAR Route Editor is unparalleled in the market.

The CADSTAR Route Editor 2000 (S & HS) obeys a wide range of fast-circuit rules, including net and branch ordering, zero or controlled stub-lengths, matched, minimum and maximum length/delay constraints, and maximum multilayer crosstalk limits.

Signal integrity constraints specified up front are inherited by the CADSTAR Route Editor 2000, or rules may be added and modified within the integrated rules editor.

The CADSTAR Route Editor 2000 provides special algorithms to manage the requirements of differential pairs and automatic signal shielding tools. Automatic shields may be created across single or multiple layers using nominated signals.

By building in expert EMC advice, the CADSTAR EMC Adviser can ensure that all designs meet the most stringent emission regulations without the need for any external testing, saving time and money throughout the critical design cycle.

The CADSTAR EMC Adviser helps designers - EMC specialists and non specialists alike - to predict, analyze and control design issues that may cause EMC/EMI problems. It is a very flexible and comprehensive rules-based EMC analysis system. Ultimately it gives.

PCB designers full and easy control over various types of design constraints that effect overall electro-magnetic compliance of boards

The CADSTAR Design Viewer is a free download that lets you share and access CADSTAR design data. It dramatically improves workgroup dynamics by increasing project productivity, either in standalone mode or when used in conjunction in a CADSTAR design environment. CADSTAR Design Viewer Plus is a cost effective Utility that also allows post processing and report generation.

The CADSTAR Design Viewer:

Makes design data accessible to any user, even occasional users, with easy viewing and sharing of schematic and PCB design data.

Facilitates intra and inter-discipline teamwork. Design reviews are more effective as all data can be shared consistently throughout the engineering team.

Provides management, project leaders, design partners and customers with direct access to design data in order to plan projects, track and review progress.

Enables collaborative design members, within the company or remotely, to share and access the data, cost effectively.

Reduce expensive, time consuming design iterations through the utilization of fully integrated advanced signal integrity simulation and analysis tools.

As recent research has shown, 18% of design iterations are due to signal integrity issues.

CADSTAR SI has been specifically designed to integrate into the existing design process and cut time-to-market for new electronic products by eliminating this problem.