Design data management with Xpedition
Benefits of Design Data Management:
The design management tools enable users to reduce design cycle times and design environment costs of ownership through increased efficiency and security, better resource management, and reduced defects.
Centralized data and information hub allows easy access to project data, reducing cycle times.
Version management and history tracking helps prevent defects.
Infrastructure simplifies user’s experience with common administration, data access control, and security.
Automatically extracts design data at check-in, allowing instant status tracking, and analysis without opening authoring tools, making project management more efficient.
The built-in design data management capabilities include:
Version management of objects, managing design roll-back versions
History tracking of source data for make-from designs
Control of project-specific user access and review distribution/approvals
Support for full design concurrency in a managed way
Complete history/family-tree for design traceability
Template-driven design to reduce project start up times
Process integration across the flow manages and tracks:
The designer’s cockpit, from which authoring applications are launched and managed
Changes in schematic, layout, analysis, and FPGA optimization tools
Full project reporting with visibility to metrics such as number of connections, total versus completed connections, total versus placed parts or pins, number of rules/constraints, completion rate, and open hazard counts
Synchronization status of schematic and layout prior to production release
Generation of manufacturing outputs from the fully synchronized design, ensuring the complete production data package is from the most current design files
Collaboration management capabilities:
Automated session management, allowing simple check out/in of the design data for each user
Automatic management of the required collaboration sessions, supporting real-time collaboration between engineers and designers
Red-line and markup capabilities for collaborating on design reviews, including comparison of design versions
Support for outsourcing processes, enabling a consistent design data exchange with a third-party partner, such as a contract manufacturer or service bureau
Approval management and notification services across team members
Support for the EDX data exchange standard to ensure data integrity of shared design data throughout the extended enterprise
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