Precience, Inc.

Product Description

PCBNavigator® provides complete bi-direction integration from OrCAD Capture to PADS PowerPCB. Successfully used by over 200 companies worldwide. PCBNavigator® takes designs from schematic to board layout faster. Engineers assign constraints at the schematic level using a highly productive user interface. Changes back and forth between schematic and board layout are synchronized automatically at the database level. The added capabilities include PowerPCB constraints assignment at the engineer’s desktop schematic level using PCBNavigator, constraints include “differential pairs, net classes, net rules, delay, impedance, forced order routing, matched length, cross talk, stub lengths, and other rules. Create a layout project direct from PCBNavigator for Mentor Expedition PCB 2000.5. and pass constraints, stay in sync with forward & back-annotation.

Benefits to End User of Product and Interface to MGC

• Reduce PCB board turns due to delays caused by incorrect design rules, and engineering change order (ECO) errors.
• Saves up to 50% in labor compared to manual method. The engineer or designer can set design rules using spreadsheets at the schematic level.
• Maintain design integrity between schematic designs and target PCB Systems through back annotation of ECO changes in PCB layout. Back annotation available for all supported schematic editors. ECO changes only supported for OrCAD schematic editor.
• Reads schematic files, and automatically packages your design to target PCB design tool placement and routing constraint rules already set
• Provides complete ECO and PCB ASCII out back annotation integration between schematics and target PCB Design tools.
• Constraint management spreadsheet provides total user control over PCB design rules in an easy to read Excel style spreadsheet supporting board, net, pin, and component design rules.
• Cross-probe object linking and embedding (OLE) components, pins and nets between schematics and target PCB design tools.
• 'Attached Pins' allows the user to find out exactly what pins and type of pins are attached to a net.
• 'Attached Nets' allows the user to find what nets are attached to a component.
• Analyze drivers/receivers on a node: net topology spreadsheet viewer.
• multiple design rules for nets (high speed rules), components (clusters), and board (track2track, etc.)
• High-speed design rules support such as pin pairs, differential pairs, delay, impedance, etc.
• Supports flat and hierarchical designs.

Company Background

Precience acquired CADSoft Solutions (the makers of PCBNavigator) in 2001 to build a more cohesive design chain integration platform with the extended supply chain. Today over 200 companies use the solution effectively to speed up the board design process. Precience goal is to continue enhancing design chain solution to bring higher integration and thus increased business value to our customers.

integration between OrCAD Capture and PADS PowerPCB. This integration is at binary level with Cadence, and also with PADS PowerPCB system. We utilize the developer license from Cadence and Mentor to deliver a seamless, binary integration. This is NOT a translation tool. It is a real time data exchange system, and glues together OrCAD and PADS system.

The software enables the user to debug designs faster with the support of bi-directional cross probing between schematic capture and target PCB editors. The PCBNavigator solution maintains design integrity, and synchronization with PCB ECO changes (pin/gate swap, reference design rename, rules etc.). ECO changes can be easily read into OrCAD Capture through automatic Swap file (.swp) generation. PCBNavigator also can synchronize using PADS ASCII data if the ECO file is lost. All component and net properties are loaded back into the OrCAD .dsn database schematic file.

The user can select components/nets in the schematic and the appropriate rules are highlighted automatically in the PCBNavigator spreadsheet (dynamically linked). PCBNavigator automatically checks the PCB ECO file, and reports potential ECO items back to the schematic design.

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Platforms Supported

• Windows 98
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP

Distribution and Contact Information

For further details or to find the local sales office near you, please visit www.precience.com site and download your 14 days money back guarantee license.

Precience, Inc.
16808 Harbor Town Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20905
Tel: (301) 421-9054
Fax: (301) 421-9057

Email: sales@precience.com
Web: www.precience.com

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