Electronics Workbench Ships Service Pack Enabling New Features, a Performance Boost, and Legacy Import for Ultiboard 2001.Business Editors/High Tech Writers TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2002 Company Continues Evolving its Industry-Leading Ultiboard Ultiboard is a computer program to create and modify printed circuit boards. The program was originally created by Ultimate Technologies, until that company merged with Interactive Image Technologies and eventually renamed itself to Electronics Workbench. 2001 Product Line to Exceed Customer Expectations Electronics Workbench Electronics Workbench is an electronic circuit simulator, and was also a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that first produced the software. The company was originally founded as Interactive Image Technologies , the preferred EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. supplier to more than 150,000 users worldwide, today announced shipment of Service Pack 1 for the company's industry-leading Ultiboard 2001 printed circuit board (PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. ) layout tool. Service Pack 1 adds over twenty new features, including a legacy import filter and a significant performance boost, to support the PCB design requirements of professional users. It is being supplied free of charge to all 40,000 Ultiboard 2001 customers. Service Pack 1 for Ultiboard 2001 continues Electronics Workbench's no compromise approach to delivering innovative, powerful, and high-value design tools to the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. Specific features in Service Pack 1 were developed based on customer feedback, and to address the requirements of higher-end, professional PCB designers. "Our product development process is relentless as we aim to deliver the best price/performance EDA tools in the world," states Scott Duncan Adam Scott Mattewson Duncan (November 2, 1888 - October 3, 1976) was a Scottish professional footballer and manager. Playing career Scott Duncan, born in Dumbarton, was working as a law clark when he joined his hometoon club Dumbarton in 1906. , director of sales and marketing for Electronics Workbench. "The new features in Ultiboard 2001 will exceed the expectations of our personal and professional users." The new functionality in Ultiboard 2001 focuses on design rule checking and netlist A list of logic gates and their interconnections which make up a circuit. See logic synthesis. connectivity. These are the areas where mistakes most commonly occur and are easily overlooked leading to incorrect designs and ultimately, scrapped boards. In addition to the many new features detailed below, Electronics Workbench increased the Ultiboard 2001 code efficiency for a performance boost of up to 10 percent. The newly tuned Ultiboard 2001 provides customers with more efficiency, functionality, and performance, resulting in overall PCB productivity gains. Ultiboard 2001 Service Pack 1 Functionality Highlights -- Extended DRC error reporting--for example, if a DRC violation identifies nets as being too close to each other, full details of the part's reference designator pin number and nets are provided. -- A new function called Connectivity Check validates "ratsnest" connectivity and reports any disconnected netlists in the output window to ensure accurate netlist update after modifications. -- The Component Wizard has been extended allowing for custom pads on both through hole, and surface mount devices. -- Extended support for both Gerber RS-274D and RS-274X file formats. Both now include the capability for reflection, board outline, and oversized solder mask. -- An enhanced design viewing capability automatically zooms into the appropriate area on the design when any item is selected in the output window. This aids in swift navigation around the most complex designs. Migrating Customers to Professional Tools The legacy file import feature available in Service Pack 1 allows customers to migrate their designs to the professional version of Ultiboard 2001. European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. customers using the entry-level en·try-lev·el adj. Appropriate for or accessible to one who is inexperienced in a field or new to a market: an entry-level job in advertising; an entry-level computer. Eagle PCB products can import their files into Ultiboard 2001. Current users of Eagle products now gain easy access to all the benefits and unique design features in Ultiboard 2001. Pricing and Availability Service Pack 1 for Ultiboard 2001 is now available free of charge. Electronics Workbench is currently shipping Service Pack 1 to all Ultiboard 2001 customers. For questions about the Service Pack 1, please call 1-800-263-5552. Pricing for Ultiboard 2001 ranges from $399 - $4995. Electronics Workbench employs several tiers of pricing to suit all types of customers from the entry-level Personal Edition at $399, to the highly advanced PowerPro Edition at $4995. Electronics Workbench provides lower prices than those of any other major PCB/EDA company for comparable functionality. About Electronics Workbench Founded in 1982, Electronics Workbench is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation that develops and markets the industry's best selling Windows-based electronic design automation (EDA) tools for circuit design engineers, educators and students around the globe. The Electronics Workbench product line includes programs for schematic capture schematic capture - The process of entering the logical design of an electronic circuit into a CAE system by creating a schematic representation of components and interconnections. , Spice/VHDL/Verilog simulation, PCB layout and autorouting/autoplacement. More than 150,000 copies of Electronics Workbench products have been sold worldwide. Electronics Workbench has its headquarters at 111 Peter Street, Suite 801, Toronto Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing , Ontario Ontario, city, United States Ontario, city (1990 pop. 133,179), San Bernardino co., S Calif., near Los Angeles, in a region of vineyards; inc. 1891. , M5V 2H1, Canada. The telephone number is (416) 977-5550, the fax number is (416) 977-5818 or visit the company's Web site at www.electronicsworkbench.com |
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