Software facilitates PCB layout and autorouting.
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Providing follow-me trace placement, Ultiroute v8 delivers automation of autorouter with flexibility and control of manual routing. Ultiboard v8 provides error reporting with jump-to functionality and real-time DRC. Integration of products permits users to nudge components even after they have been connected by rubberbanding existing traces. Ultiboard 8 includes PCB transmission line and differential impedance calculators that complement Ultiboard's high-speed rule checks.
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Electronics Workbench Launches Ultiboard 8 and Ultiroute 8 For PCB Layout And Autorouting
Part Nudging Without Losing Connections
Tighter Integration Between Manual and Autorouting
May 23, 2005 - Toronto Canada - Electronics Workbench Corporation, a National Instruments company (Nasdaq: NATI), announces the launch of Ultiboard 8 and Ultiroute 8. These major releases complete the Electronics Workbench Series 8 Design Suite, allowing users to efficiently and seamlessly take projects from initial concept through capture and simulation to final layout.
Ultiboard and Ultiroute 8 include numerous powerful innovations. For example, the enhanced integration between the two products permits the user to nudge components even after they have been connected to copper by automatically "rubberbanding" the existing traces through real-time calls to the autorouting engine.
Ultiboard and Ultiroute 8 are fully compatible with Multicap and Multisim 8's variant functionality, allowing users to create a single schematic and PCB to support multiple product variations. Designs destined for international markets are further enhanced by Ultiboard's support for multi-byte and other special character formats. Ultiboard 8 includes PCB Transmission Line and Differential Impedance calculators that complement Ultiboard's existing high-speed rule checks. Other timesaving product enhancements include the ability to "Turn Off" the ratsnest for selected nets, the ability to "Unplace" all unlocked components from the board, improvements to the real-time DRC engine, a new "Net Bridge" feature which allows any two nets to be connected and a 3D IGES file export. Previously only available in Multisim 8, Ultiboard 8's convenient "Post-It" style design notes provide real-time layout annotation ability.
Along with tighter integration to Ultiboard, Ultiroute 8 delivers substantial increases in routing speed, the ability to autoroute a selected net, and support for multiple via types.
Ultiboard and Ultiroute 8 are each priced from $1,495 USD. A free 45-day trial edition can be downloaded at www.electronicsworkbench.com. Alternatively, CDs are available by registering on-line. For further information, call 800.263.5552.
VP Sales and Marketing
Ian Suttie
Electronics Workbench
111 Peter Street, Suite 801
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2H1
Canada
Tel: 800.263.5552 ext. 263
Fax: 416.977.1818
isuttie@electronicsworkbench.com
About Electronics Workbench
Electronics Workbench develops and markets desktop electronic design automation (EDA) software used by design engineers and educators around the world. The company's circuit board design system incorporates schematic capture; patented co-simulation of analog and digital circuits using SPICE and VHDL; RF design tools; constraint-driven PCB layout and autorouting; and CAM verification tools. Multisim, the company's flagship product, is the most widely used SPICE simulator in the world. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Electronics Workbench also operates sales and support offices in Europe and South America and has distribution partners in an additional 32 countries around the world. Call (416) 977-5550 or go to www.electronicsworkbench.com to learn more about the company.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,400 employees and direct operations in 38 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
