SHANGHAI -- Saying it is responding to US government bans selling American-made design software tools to China, Shanghai Hejian Industrial Software Group today opened its key product trial and evaluation services for printed circuit board design to users for free.

The company is making available its UniVista Archer, a large-scale PCB design platform that includes schematic editor and place and route capabilities.

Other products of Hejian Gongsoft include digital chip EDA tools, system-level tools and high-end IP, and it is said to be the only domestic EDA company in China that offers the spectrum of digital chip verification and high-speed interconnection IP for advanced processes.

The company is also making available its digital verification simulator, open debugging platform, virtual prototyping and simulation tools, design for test software and system-level design software.

Hejian Gongsoft says it has 200 customers and serves the "vast majority" of high-end chip design companies in China.

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