CR-8000 Design Force named a finalist for the prestigious UBM Electronics ACE Awards

It’s not often that you get rewarded for the things you do every day – I mean really rewarded.  We’re all accustomed to “thanks”, “great job”, “well done”, and the metaphorical pat on the back, but this is something different.  CR-8000 Design Force has been named a finalist in the software category in the EE [...]

Top 5 Return on Investment Areas for E3.WireWorks

Eric van Essen, one of our friends over at Javelin Technologies (an authorized E³.WireWorks reseller in Canada) shares his experience to help you justify an investment in E³.WireWorks.
E³.WireWorks has been having a very positive impact on our clients, but just because the design team wants the tools, does not mean they can convince the ones that hold the purse strings to invest in it.

Six reasons why you need to visit the E3.WireWorks team at SolidWorks World

This year’s SolidWorks World in San Diego will be my fourth. But I know that compared to many I’m still a lightweight, with many users racking up double figures! I’ll be joining the action on February 12-15, representing Zuken’s complete electrical solution E3.WireWorks. The term electrical can mean many things to different types of engineers, [...]

PCB and electrical design – a world of opportunity

It’s a great time for both PCB systems and electrical design. As a major provider of technology in both, we see notable changes happening in both areas. And we’re growing our international business team to help us build on these opportunities. PCB systems design The trends in PCB design have been moving towards higher speeds, [...]

German Engineering Days 2011 – a thrilling launch and valuable networking time

by Petra Haberer December 19, 2011 Europe
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The Ulm Engineering Day on 25th October was the starting signal for this year’s round of European Engineering Days. And we also had the honor of hosting the press launch of our latest flagship product, CR-8000. Selected members of the media had the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the architect of the product, Kazuhiro Kariya, [...]

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Season’s Greetings…and details of our hotline support coverage during the holidays

by Amy Clements December 15, 2011 Americas
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The last twelve months have flown by and we are looking forward to enjoying another holiday season. This past year was a busy one for all of us here at Zuken, culminating in the launch of CR-8000, the world’s first new PCB design software in the last 15 years.  After all that hard work, we’re ready [...]

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Z-DAC 2011 – A great turnout and already planning for 2012

by Amy Clements December 12, 2011 Americas
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Another Z-DAC comes to a close, and while I’m pleased with how everything went, I’m a bit disappointed that it’s over. Of the many events that I work on throughout the year, this is definitely my favorite, and that’s due to the fact that I have many more opportunities to interact with our customers more [...]

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CADSTAR users enthusiastic about new Power Integrity Advance solution

by Ralf Bruening December 1, 2011 Electronic
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In the last few weeks I’ve been on the road visiting the well-attended Engineering Days in Benelux (Eindhoven), UK (Shropshire) and ZDAC in San Antonio, USA. My colleague Humair Mandavia and I formed a tag-team to introduce the new Power Integrity Advance solution to our customers; with my focus this time on our CADSTAR users. [...]

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Improve your PCB Quality and Cost with Concurrent Power Integrity Analysis

by Humair Mandavia November 23, 2011 Americas
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I recently gave a presentation on Power Integrity analysis at PCB West. The presentation, available below, looks at the increasing challenges with power distribution systems on modern high-speed PCBs and considers: IC input impedance behavior, resonance behavior of power distribution systems (PDS), management of decoupling capacitors and EDA methodology for concurrent power integrity simulation throughout PCB design process.

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Getting involved. E3.series users keen to share experiences and insights

by Patrick Hackney November 21, 2011 Americas
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I recently concluded my whirl wind tour of both the UK (ZEDUK) and US (Z-DAC) annual meetings. The E³ track sessions (E³.series or E³.WireWorks) were broken down into Technical content, provided by Zuken and its resellers and user experiences, which were very kindly provided by our customers, who I thank greatly and will mention later [...]

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