Zuken Inc. has announced a new version of its CR-8000 single and multi-board design solution. CR-8000 single and multi-board design solution includes improved accuracy in layer configuration design work through transfer of layer configuration data between CR-8000 Design Force and Polar Instruments Speedstack. Zuken's CR-8000 is the industry's only next-generation, product-centric design solution for creating complex product designs.

CR-8000 Design Force enables design teams to easily create any design from quick prototype boards to complex, multi-board systems using a single tool. To help meet this challenge, CR-8000 Design Force now allows users to perform even more accurate 3D checks by using a true 3D component model with a precisely-matched 3D shape, rather than simply using a shape defined by a boundary box. Accurate shape parts can be used for collision checks and 3D clearance checks.

This ability to check the enclosure early and continuously in the design process supports better collaboration between the electrical and mechanical design teams, eliminating the silo effect and reducing time to market and design iterations. Layer configuration data can now be transferred between CR-8000 Design Force and Polar Instruments Speedstack, bringing the manufacturing and PCB design stages closer together. This ensures that the most accurate and up-to-date information from material manufacturers and PCB manufacturers is being used, removing the need to re-input stackup data thus saving time and improving quality.

A number of productivity and user operability enhancements are available in CR-8000 2015.1, including: Design edit function enhancements; and Track width changes. It is now easy to create line shapes considering the production yield ratio and signal quality. When routing with the track/route differential pair/bundle route command, the track width now changes automatically on the boundary of a rule area.

New export formats for outputting waveforms in the waveform viewer, improving efficiency in documenting and reporting signal results for engineering information and review.