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Routing:
CADSTAR P.R.Editor XR 2000 L4 & L6
- Functionality Matrix

Are you designing PCBs with up to 4 or 6 layers and need a sophisticated interactive and automatic routing tool?

Here's your chance. CADSTAR is offering highly competitive price/performance options with the new PCB design routing products P.R.Editor XR 2000 L4 and P.R.Editor XR 2000 L6.

A combination of the world’s first graphical grid-free routing algorithm technology refined and optimized to deliver 100% routing completion, alongside or embedded within the CADSTAR PCB Design Editor, it will significantly reduce your design cycle time and increase your productivity.

The manual and interactive component placement and manual, interactive and automatic routing capabilities of P.R.Editor XR 2000 have led the world for many years. With outstanding performance, completion and most importantly manufacturability of the final design, P.R.Editor XR is unparalleled in the market.

	Functionality includes :		Flash
	•	Interactive placement Interactive placement tools are available to help place the most dense designs, with features including push aside, springback and minimum force indicators.	549Kb
	•	Jumpers New in CADSTAR 8. Add Pre-defined non-functional jumpers (SMD or Through-hole) on the fly, as easily as the user can add Vias	1.97Mb
	•	Routing The P.R.Editor interactive routing tools including Activ-45, concurrent bus routing, push aside and springback	2.03Mb
	•	Routing - Angled Pushing New in CADSTAR 8. P.R.Editor XR now allows pushing routes at 45 degrees	429 Kb
	•	Routing - Route from Other End New in CADSTAR 8. P.R.Editor XR now allows you to swtich ends when routing	140 Kb
	•	Plus much more...	See Matrix

Interactive and Manual Placement
Components can be placed in their optimal, error-free locations using advanced placement indicators. On dense designs, components can automatically be pushed aside.

Routing Combination with Power and Control
Critical areas of a design can be partially or fully manually routed. You can view automatic routing in progress and easily make interactive changes by interrupting the program at any time, then allow the automatic routines to complete the task.

Manufacturing Considerations
Smoothing routines, which include via minimization and staircase removal, optimize routing for high-yield manufacturing. Track necking and fattening combine to automatically produce the maximum possible copper widths on specified nets, while acid trap removal and corner mitering functions further improve manufacturability.

A Toolset for All Jobs
A range of special innovative algorithms, such as river routing, data bus pattern routing, memory routing and minimum impact routing, have been created to reduce the routing task on the most complex designs.

Breakout Patterns
Using the Footprint option, fan-out and fan-in footprint patterns can be created and stored for use on the finest pitch devices, saving space and allowing higher completion rates for the automatic router.

Testpoint Analysis
Either during routing or on the completed design, testpoints can be inserted using SMT or through-hole testpoints. You have fine control over the type of testpoint to be used, the side or sides it occupies and whether it is inserted automatically during routing or as a post-routing task. Testpoint insertions are performed by using the push-aside technology, together with intelligence, so if a pad or via is designated ‘no probe’ points the automatic routines will insert a new test point site.

Activ-45 Routing
Using the latest true 45 degree routing algorithm, Activ-45 is a single click, error free 45 degree auto completing interactive routing tool. With a single click, the route is effortlessly guided by the user, through the densest areas of a design, creating true error-free 45 degree routing patterns.