AcAe Software, a leading provider of interoperability solutions for the EDA industry, announced the premier of its DART design migration technology product family.

Data Abstraction Re-Targeting (DART) simplifies and streamlines the migration of electronic design data across EDA vendor platforms.

DART supports intelligent migration of PCB layouts, schematics and constraints. Features include:

• Unified design migration
• Functional and usable designs
• Design integrity
• Intelligent handling of functional properties
• Customizable property mapping override
• Detailed migration verification reporting.

For years, companies have struggled with a translation dilemma: What to do with active (and legacy) design data residing across diverse platforms? By easing the actual design migration across vendor platforms, DART simplifies the decision-making processes regarding EDA tool suites.

No more weeks and months of agonizing manual rework, gluing together uncoordinated, incomplete schematic and layout translations. DART Design Migration Technology finally lays to rest outdated EDIF-based translation technology; delivering EDA migration into the 21st century.

DART currently supports migration from Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and Expedition to Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL and Allegro PCB Design, respectively. Additional vendor tools and platforms will be announced soon.

Design migration services using DART Technology are available exclusively through AcAe LLC. For sales and service, please contactMonique Cartier at 1-800-256-9026.

About AcAe Software

Since 2007, AcAe-Software, LLC has pioneered significant advancements in EDA technology, migration software, and customizable solutions. The company is headquartered in Maitland, Florida. Visit www.acae-software.com for more information.

AcAe-Software, a division of AcAe, has released the next generation of its revolutionary DART CAD migration software. DART is not an EDIF translator, but an intelligent data migration path from Mentor Graphics Design Architect/Board Station to Cadence Concept Allegro.

This follows the successful AcAe-Software release of Mentor Graphics DXDesigner/Expedition to Concept Allegro in April 2009, already endorsed by major corporations.

DART provides fully intelligent and interactive design data, as well as schematics, board constraints and properties. DART can migrate the most complex PCB designs with an ease and accuracy never before achieved.

AcAe-Software has taken migration from the dark ages of EDIF translators into the 21st century. With DART, designers won’t spend days or weeks performing “cleanup” on poorly translated data. The migrated data is ready to go.

AcAe-Software will continue to release other migration software solutions over the next few months.

“This migration software is only the beginning. In 2010 we will release a product that will, without any doubt, reshape the EDA industry for the next 20 years or more,” said CEO Bill Basten of AcAe and AcAe-Software. “The technology we have developed for migration software has opened up other CAD application avenues, that 12 months ago I would never have thought possible to achieve. This will be the big one that will set the EDA industry on its heels.”

The DART product family provides:

• Functional design out of DART.
• Data content retained with detailed report.
• Design integrity maintained.
• Electrical constraints retained.
• Functional properties automatically handled.
• Automated mapping for platform differences.
• Customizable mapping for user defined properties.
• Automatic verification with detailed report.

The DART product family enables end-users to successfully integrate design data within their design environment. Full data solutions are now achieved in a fraction of the time normally required to develop such solutions.

 

DART incorporates major new advancements in information models to enable data integration between all major CAD vendors, consisting of a core environment and various software components that automatically import a CAD vendor’s data and render to another.

With many years experience in the EDA industry behind it, AcAe-Software is established as the only neutral company providing dependable, effective interoperability solutions worldwide.

About AcAe-Software

AcAe-Software is the developer of the DART product family, a new product line of data converter solutions that simplify and streamline the process of transferring electronic design data from one CAD vendor to another. AcAe-Software is a division of AcAe LLC, a dedicated CAE support service provider and PCB design bureau established in Maitland, Florida in 1993. For more information, contact Monique’ Cartier at 1-800-256-9026 or visit www.acae.com.