WESTFORD, MA -- Zuken's CR-8000 and CR-5000 printed circuit board design suites now support for Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 all programmable SoCs.

Zuken’s Graphical Pin Manager (GPM) FPGA and PCB co-design environment now includes Xilinx's Zynq-7000 SoCs and 7 series FPGAs within its device library. This allows designers working with CR-8000 and CR-5000 to use Xilinx's programmable devices early in the design process and access a wider range of silicon devices in GPM, Zuken says. It also provides designers with a complete FPGA/PCB co-design environment, and employs GPM to help manage, optimize, and intelligently communicate pin assignments anytime during the co-design process.

GPM optimizes pin assignment when co-designing the logical and physical circuits of PCBs, reflecting design changes directly to the logical and physical circuits and vice versa. In addition, libraries such as circuit symbols and footprints based on different criteria or attributes, such as I/O banks, are generated automatically. This results in optimized, highly-efficient and high-quality circuit/board design processes for FPGA components.

"In the competitive electronic equipment industry, the speed with which EDA vendors can offer the latest device-based design environments determines when customers can launch new products or take advantage of new business opportunities. This ongoing partnership with Xilinx offers GPM support for their advanced devices in response to customers' needs," said Kazuhiro Kariya, Zuken's chief technical officer.

The latest device library containing Zynq-7000 family information is available for Zuken users to download at Zuken Global Support: https://support.zuken.co.jp/global/home.

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