ROCHESTER, NY – EMA Design Automation has announced that Cadence Design Systems’ OrCAD customers now have access to engineering data of the Digi-Key part database.

“Bringing Digi-Key data into the OrCAD environment means our customers have over one million orderable parts…available during part selection,” said Manny Marcano, CEO of EMA Design Automation. “It streamlines the purchasing process by providing correct part numbers as part of the design engineering process.”

EMA claims that placing parts directly into a design reduces the chance of re-spins due to wrong, obsolete, or non-compliant parts, and reduces administrative overhead when validating new part requests. Having the cost information available also assists in monitoring production costs and profitability.

“At Digi-Key, we take pride in finding new ways to provide the best service possible,” said Mark Larson, COO at Digi-Key. “We decided to make our web data available so that EMA could get our parts in front of engineers at the point of part selection.”

EMA integrated the Digi-Key database into OrCAD by creating the EMA Component Information Portal (CIP), to update the Component Information System (CIS) database. With the addition of the interface, new part requests can now come directly from Digi-Key along with related part information.

For more information, go to www.ema-eda.com/Digi-Key.