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The Flex Designer Suite provides tools to speed up the design of flexible printed circuits which have traditionally needed the requirement of precise mechanical measurements. CDS has developed electrically intelligent Flex layout EDA tools for the most demanding flexible circuit requirements.
Key Features:
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True arcs can be used in any entity in a design with accurate design rule checking.
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Automatic progressively increasing filleting of all trace bends that use built- in DRC to prevent radii from becoming too large.
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Boundary nets can have unlimited complex shapes with optional arcs and can be automatically generated from non-boundary artwork from any source.
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Teardrops have true arcs with variable radii and variable included angles with optional individual editing.
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Specialized Flex checking and CAM tools, such as GapChk (checks internal and external gaps on boundary polylines) and EtchCom (performs etch compensation on any net, boundary or polyline with width) that are used by leading foundries.
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Gerber output utility accurately converts all flex entities and verifies a match to the original artwork with 100% confidence.
Flex Technology
The Flex Technology is a set of tools developed for flex designers and is optimized for quick and accurate: Teardrops, filleting, tapers, ground planes, cover layers, routing, pushing, spreading, and more. The Flex Designer Suite is available with other tools to complete a Flex circuit from schematic to layout and routing to gerber.
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True arcs can be used in any entity in a design with accurate design rule checking.
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Automatic progressively increasing filleting of all trace bends that use built- in DRC to prevent radii from becoming too large.
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Boundary nets can have unlimited complex shapes with optional arcs and can be automatically generated from non-boundary artwork from any source.
PCB Design Tools
The PCB design tools is used to control and manipulate design rules, layering system, routing assignments, environment preferences, etc.
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Large, parametrically controlled parts library through which an infinite number of components can be constructed
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A dedicated suite of utilities allows construction of custom components with any imaginable geometry
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Advanced routing tools including manual, interactive, and fully automatic modes
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Custom entity system for customer-specific requirements
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Advanced region modelers for the most advanced ground planes, including solid fill, hatched, positive, negative, and boundary fill planes
The Schematic design environment is a full featured, hierarchical schematic capture program that can communicate seamlessly with the PCB layout. The Schematic environment also features:
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Schematic driven design rules
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Symbols and attributes can be loaded from a database
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Powerful library system for custom symbols
Design Rule Checking:
Design Rule Checker Utility is a batch clearance checking tool for user checking of completed or in-progress designs, to produce precision accuracy down to fractions of a micron.
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Unlimited custom entity-to-entity checking.
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Save custom DRC settings in a file.
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View and automatically zoom to errors for correction.
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The Ignore Errors Less Than feature screens out insignificant minute errors not worth reviewing.
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Hierarchical rule setting.
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DE command lists error data on selected Error Flags.
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VE command displays all rule errors in a grid.
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Settings stored in drawing database.
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All errors are flagged.
Advanced Routing:
The Advanced Route Module provides many advanced tuning, filleting, chamfering, progressive chamfering, neck downs, tapering and advanced trace editing commands. The tools included enhance the features in the Master RF Suite.
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Easy Differential Pair routing
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Many types of length tuning.
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Trace segment sliding.
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Any angle advanced manual routing with on-line DRC, hugs objects and follows angles of originating pad.
