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Design Works
Schematic Capture Software for Electronic Design
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DesignWorks Professional 4 is your best choice for productive and easy-to-use electronic circuit schematic drawing tools. It is intended for design professionals that need full, production-oriented schematic capture capability with hierarchical design, standard and custom netlist formats, extensive symbol libraries and much more.
DesignWorks Lite 4 schematic capture is intended for hobbyists or occasional users who need to draw simple, single page schematic diagrams. DesignWorks Lite is an unbeatable tool for creating clean, professional diagrams. Includes basic symbol libraries, sample designs and on-line documentation.
LogicWorks 4 is the educational version of DesignWorks, giving students powerful schematic design and digitial simulation capabilities at low cost. It is sold in book form exclusively by Prentice Hall Publishing.
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DesignWorks Professional Schematic Capture for Windows
Unique in the industry, DesignWorks Professional works the way you do. With its intuitive graphical interface you'll be completing projects, not reading manuals. Let DesignWorks form the core of your engineering environment!
DesignWorks Professional 4 offers you the best user interface, bar none, for schematic capture. The program is designed to minimize the number of mouse clicks and key strokes needed to complete a task. Most common operations, like placing a part or drawing a signal line, require no menu selections and no command typing.
The powerful scripting system provides seamless integration with all your engineering tools. DesignWorks Professional 4 doesn't just provide an environment for a single goal. It allows you to recapture your investment dollars by being flexible enough to handle all your design goals, be the goal a PCB design, Spice analysis, or simulation. You are not locked in to one PCB or simulation vendor.
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Electronic software
Software elettronica
Programma elettronica
Circuito elettronico
Simulazione digitale
Pcb software
Software oem
Simulazione software
Disegno circuito
Circuito elettrico
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Schematic Capture for Electronic Design
DesignWorks Professional 4 has all the features you would expect from your schematic capture package, including:
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Automatic gate packaging |
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Unlimited hierarchy levels |
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Flexible, customizable netlist and report generation |
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Multi-level Undo/Redo |
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Back Annotation (from supported systems) |
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Graphics export to DXF and WMF |
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Schematic Drawings for Non-Electronic Applications
With its flexible report generation, built-in symbol editor and powerful text attribute features, DesignWorks Professional is ideal for non-electronic diagramming applications, including:
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Networks |
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Cabling |
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Power Electrical |
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Industrial Controls |
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Schematic Capture for OEM Applications
If you produce circuit or network analysis, layout or simulation software and need a graphical diagramming tool as a front end, consider DesignWorks Professional. DesignWorks has numerous customization features that allow the package to be configured for your application, often without writing a single line of program code! Custom menus, symbol libraries, netlist and report outputs, design templates and other items can be customized to meet your requirements.
New Features in Version 4.1 for Windows
Version 4.1 adds some important new features:
New Schematic Editing Features
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Drag and drop devices from parts list to schematic |
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Create Subcct Block command. This allows you to quickly convert a circuit or group of selected items into a subcircuit block with just a few mouse clicks |
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New Port Connector command. This makes quick work of adding port connections to a subcircuit block, especially for bus pins |
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Edit Symbol command. Just right click on a symbol in a schematic to launch straight into the symbol editor to make changes |
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New order options to Repackage Design. Repackage Design can now be set to apply names in any selected order |
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Improvements to Update from Lib command. New options and less prompting with unneeded warnings and options |
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Read Only option in Define Attribute Fields |
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Added scriptable attribute probe. You can now customize the information that appears when the attribute probe is clicked on an item |
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More colours in INI file |
Back Annotation
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Added part number field selector for PADS format back annotation |
Export
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All lines now limited to the size specified in $LINEWIDTH |
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Changed default $LINEWIDTH to 32000 |
General Changes
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Numerous small bug fixes and fine tuning |
DesignWorks Professional 4.5 for Macintosh
General Drawing
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Full hierarchical design is supported with unlimited circuit size and nesting depth. Powerful command set allows top-down or bottom-up design. Multiple hierarchy modes allow for PCB, FPGA and VLSI designs. |
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Standard ANSI sheet sizes or fully customized borders can be used with up to 1,000 pages per circuit level. Each page is displayed in a separate window with independent control of pan and zoom. Objects can be drawn in user-selectable colors on machines with color support. Any number of circuit windows and hierarchy levels can be open simultaneously, allowing easy copying of partial or complete diagrams from one file to another. |
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Connectivity is maintained at all times between signals connected by name, bus, or page connector and can be traced up and down through the hierarchy. Connection dots, end markers and page references are updated automatically. Busses and bus pins on device symbols are supported allowing a single pin connection to represent an arbitrary collection of internal signals. Powerful Find and ErrorFind tools locate objects by name, attribute or error condition. |
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A powerful text attributes feature allows arbitrary text data to be associated with any design, device, signal or pin. Over 50 fields are predefined for common items such as part name, component value, gate unit, etc. Custom fields can be added by the user at any time. Attribute text can be displayed, moved, rotated and edited right on the schematic with global control of text style. An "attribute probe" feature allows quick viewing of device or signal data with a mouse click. |
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Device packaging is supported for multi-gate devices. An auto-packaging mode assigns names and pin numbers to devices as they are placed on the diagram. Batch mode allows complete reassignment of packages to the entire design. Various locking and error checking options give full control over the packaging process. |
Editing
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Cut, Copy and Paste operations can be used on any circuit element or group within a single window, across circuit pages or between circuits. Circuit graphics and text can be pasted into any other Macintosh or Windows applications, including word processors and drafting packages. Text or graphics (Macintosh version only) created by any other application can also be pasted into a DesignWorks circuit file. |
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Common editing operations can be accessed by menu, keyboard command or an on-screen tool palette. Pop-up menus that appear in the circuit window allow direct access to common editing operations without moving to the menu bar. Any object or collection of objects can be moved with full rubber-banding of attached signal lines. Multi-level undo/redo is available for all editing operations. |
Libraries
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DesignWorks includes an extensive set of libraries totaling over 13,000 symbols in both ANSI rectangular and IEEE formats. Includes all 54xx and 74xx families, CMOS, ECL, Memories, Microprocessors and discretes. All symbols include gate package information, functional descriptions and other information. |
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On-screen parts palette with string search option allows quick selection of parts for placement. |
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Integrated device symbol editor allows quick creation of new library entries. Standard drawing tools are available plus an "auto-create" command which will generate standard symbols in seconds. |
Report Generation and Back Annotation
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The integrated report generation facility produces standard or custom-formatted net and component lists from DesignWorks circuit files. Hierarchical netlists are also supported and can be written out in nested or flattened format. Common PCB and simulation netlist formats are supported. Others may be easily created with the report form scripting language. |
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Back annotation is supported for a number of common formats and includes device rename, gate swap and pin-swap operations. |
Hardcopy Output
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Circuit diagrams can be printed on any dot-matrix or laser printers supported by the operating system, or can be written as standard-format PICT graphics files on the Macintosh or bmp files under Windows. On the Macintosh a plotter utility package is included which supports Houston Instruments, HP and Roland plotters. |
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DesignWorks Lite 4
DesignWorks Lite is a low-cost, powerful tool for drawing electronic schematic diagrams, based on our full DesignWorks Professional product. It is available for Windows and Macintosh. DesignWorks Lite is "lite" in name only! Use it to create and print complete, professional-looking diagrams for your projects!
Here's what you can do with DesignWorks Lite:
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Draw, save, edit and print complete, professional circuit diagrams using powerful features like bussing, multi-level Undo/Redo, and automatic gate packaging. |
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Use the library of common 74XX and discrete symbols provided or create your own libraries using the built-in symbol editor. |
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Send compact circuit diagram files to friends or colleagues over the 'net. They can get their own free copy of DesignWorks Lite to view, edit and print the circuits. |
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Logic Works
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LogicWorks is an interactive circuit design tool intended for teaching and learning digitial logic. No other software tool makes digital design easier, faster or more interactive than LogicWorks. The package gives you the power, speed and flexibility to create and test an unlimited number of circuit elements on-screen. This means that you can study advanced concepts much more quickly and clearly using on-screen simulation than you can by spending time wiring up expensive and damage-prone parts in a lab. LogicWorks is so easy to use that students will be creating and testing circuits in a matter of minutes, instead of spending precious lab time just getting started.
LogicWorks includes a full schematic editor with bussing, multi-level Undo/Redo, interactive connection tracing, and many other powerful features. This is coupled with the unique, interactive digital simulator. Changes made to signal connections or device paramters on the screen are immediately reflected in the timing waveforms and probes placed right on the diagram.
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LogicWorks is upwardly compatible with Capilano's professional package, DesignWorks. This means that students can use their own copy of LogicWorks on their Windows-based or Macintosh home computer and then bring designs in to the more powerful DesignWorks package in the lab for integration, analysis and testing.
Features
Schematic Editing
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Full Cut, Copy and Paste of any group of circuit elements. |
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Automatically detects signal line connections. |
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Place your own text notations on the diagram. |
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Automatically reroutes lines at right angles when you move symbols. |
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Bussing feature allows you to group any collection of signals into a single bus line. |
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Very simple diagram editing: most symbol placement and wire editing operations do not even require a menu selection. |
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Create your own device symbols and customize their simulation function by defining an internal circuit using any existing components. |
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Special power and ground symbols automatically create connections and generate the correct simulation values. |
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Pop-up menus give you direct access to common commands from anywhere on the diagram. |
Simulation
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Display any number of signals simulataneously in the timing diagram. |
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Group any collection of signals into a single timing trace with value displayed in hex. |
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Thorough library of built-in primitive simulation elements for all common digital elements. |
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All primitive logic elements are scalable, allowing, for example, 56-input gates or 17-bit counters to be constructed as a single element. |
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Set arbitrary delay values on any device or pin. |
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Built-in support for RAMs, ROMs and PLAs. |
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Sophisticated multi-state simulation supports high and low drive levels, "don't know" values, three-state and wired-AND logic. |
Support
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Free updates and supplements via Internet. |
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Thorough 400+ page printed manual. |
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| System Requirements |
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| Design Works Professional |
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• OS 98 thru XP.
• Approx 40 megs of disk space.
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Mac
• OS 8.6 thru OS 10.2.
• Approx 40 megs of disk space.
• 6 megs memory foot print.
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| Design Works Lite |
| Win*
• OS 98 thru XP.
• Approx 4 megs of disk space.
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• OS 8.6 thru OS 10.2.
• Approx 4 megs of disk space.
• 5 megs memory foot print.
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| Logic Works |
| Win*
• OS 98 thru XP.
• Approx 9 megs of disk space.
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• OS 6.8 thru 9 .2.
• Will run on OS X under classic mode.
• 3 megs of disk space.
• 4 megs memory foot print.
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