Zuken has announced CADSTAR Placement Planner, which helps electronic engineers communicate their intent and provide guidance to the PCB designer effectively, without time-consuming iterations that can cause unnecessary delays, according to the company.
Placement Planner helps enhance design flow between logical design and PCB layout, whether conducting placement studies for space planning or defining the location of critical components. It also helps maintain the integrity of the original design intention.
The Placement Planner manages schematic and layout reuse blocks to enhance design cycle time. It defines constraints and high-speed requirements before layout to reduce iterations. The Placement Planner enables easy verification through view and cross-probe between schematic and PCB design data and it allows access to the Planner's placement features during schematic entry.
