Premier Farnell and Embest Bring EAGLE, the Award Winning and Best Selling CAD Software to China
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EAGLE's DesignLink capability streamlines workflow process by allowing designers instant access to over 400,000 orderable parts without leaving the design environment.
London - Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service electronics distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, announces CadSoft GmbH, a trading division of Premier Farnell, has partnered with Embest to jointly launch CadSoft's EAGLE, the award winning software and the best selling Computer-aided Design (CAD) tool of its kind now available for use in the Chinese market. This global, tried and tested software will help Chinese engineers develop CADs using the latest technology, helping them to improve product designs, efficiency and time to market. The Chinese version of EAGLE automatically installs Mandarin versions of the manual, as well as a tutorial on computers where it is the default language.
EAGLE offers user-friendly, powerful and affordable solutions for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design, including three embedded modules in a single user interface: Schematic Capture, Board Layout and Autorouter. Electronic design engineers do not need to convert netlists between schematics and layouts, and with access to element14's product information, EAGLE's DesignLink capability streamlines workflow process by allowing design engineers instant access to over 400,000 orderable parts without having to leave the EAGLE design environment.
Through this strategic partnership, the EAGLE software is now available for the Chinese market from element14, an innovative technology eCommunity for EDEs, bringing Web 2.0 to engineers, along with over 10,000 technical documents and software tools. Customers can download the EAGLE software directly from the element14 website.
"The EAGLE software has a rich interface with strong capabilities for EDA design, and its design has evolved to be more humanised and simple with a gentle learning curve," said Zhang Guorui, Assistant General Manager at Embest. "Embest is pleased to offer the EAGLE software to the design engineering community, and is confident of the prospects of the EAGLE software in the Chinese market."
"We are excited to partner with Embest, it has always been our vision to provide electronic engineers all around the world with cutting-edge schematic and PCB design tools that offer the best performance-price ratio," said Thomas Liratsch, Managing Director of CadSoft Computer GmbH. "Today, we are bringing EAGLE into China, to allow Chinese electronic engineers to enjoy the most advanced PCB design tool. Moving forward, CadSoft will continue to upgrade and improve its software capabilities based on the needs of our Chinese customers to support the rapid development of China's electronic design industry."
"We are committed to meeting the needs of electronic design engineers globally, empowering them in their daily work to create world class designs," said David Shen, Group Senior Vice President and Global Head of Technical Marketing at Premier Farnell. "PCB design software is an essential tool for all design engineers during their product development cycle, and we believe Embest's extensive experience in integrated hardware and software development will enable element14 to support design engineers across China with EAGLE software."
About Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell plc is leading the way in the high service, multi-channel provision of essential products, information, software and technology solutions to electronic design engineers, maintenance and repair engineers and purchasing professionals globally. Its differentiated proposition includes 29 local language transactional websites, and the critically important element14 eCommunity for design engineers - an industry first (www.element14.com). With sales last year of £795.3m and underlying profits of £54.8m the Group distributes its comprehensive portfolio of products and services throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, supported by a global supply chain of over 3,500 suppliers and an inventory profile developed to anticipate and meet its customers' needs.
While global in scope, Premier Farnell recognises the individual needs of each market and has continued to internationalise its model accordingly, trading locally under different brand names. Its primary electronics businesses trade as Farnell in Europe, Newark in the US, Canada and Mexico and Farnell Newark in Brazil. Across Asia Pacific the business trades as element14.
Key facts
o Operations in 35 different countries
o 4,100 employees
o Over 2 million customer contacts in 156 industries
o Over 3,500 leading suppliers
o Over 400,000 products stocked with access to over four million more on demand
o Global leader in legislation RoHS, WEEE, REACH
For more information visit the website at PremierFarnell.com.
About Embest
Embest Info&Tech Co.LTD., established in March 2000, is a global provider of embedded hardware and software. Embest aims to help customers reduce time to market with improved quality, by providing the most effective total solutions for the embedded industry. In the rapidly growing market of high end embedded systems, Embest provides comprehensive services to specify, develop and produce products and help customers to implement innovative technology and product features. Progressing from prototyping to the final product within a short timeframe and thus shorten the time to market, and to achieve the lowest production costs possible. Embest has already had much experience and many successful cases in complex embedded systems development in various application areas like automotive, consumer, wired and wireless networking, industrial, etc.
Embest's product offering includes single board computers as embedded controller, standard development boards as a common use and commercial standard solution board like PDA/MP3/MP4/UMD/GPS /PMP/MID applied WinCE, Linux and Android OS. Embest is also an ATC (ARM Approved Training Center) and provides training services and its teaching package EmbestUniversity® is popular with many universities and educational institutes worldwide.
For more information, visit the website at www.embedinfo.com
About CadSoft
CadSoft's EAGLE software has gained global popularity due to its competitive pricing and multiple licensing options. It includes many features normally found in much more expensive tools such as; autorouter, copper pour, forward and back annotation, electrical and design rule checking, any-angle part placement and scripting to automate routine jobs such as placing card edge fingers and initialising title blocks. It also has a C-like, interpretive user language programming (ULP) facility that can be used to totally customize the tool including accessing and interacting with external files. Its tens of thousands of global users have contributed scores of such programs such as importing files in different CAD tool file formats and these are all available for use free of charge.
For more information, visit the website at www.cadsoftusa.com.
Contact Details:
Americas Contact:
Janice Fleisher
Communications Americas
Tel: +001 (1) 773 907 5941
Email: jfleisher@newark.com
APAC Contact:
Christina Loh
Communications APAC
Tel: + 65 6788 3922
E-mail: cloh@element14.com
European Contact:
Aakriti Kaushik
PR Manager, Europe and Global
Premier Farnell and Farnell
Tel: +44 (0) 113 279 0101
Email: akaushik@premierfarnell.com
