The program has all the features you expect and need to rapidly and easily take your design from conception through to production. It's in-built hierarchical project manager lets you perform both top-down and bottom-up design and reuse design components and sub-systems.
Starting with its easy to use Schematic Capture mode, you can drag pre-created parts onto your design sheets and rapidly and reliably connected the terminals together using wires, buses and off-page connectors. The program ensures that your design remains correct throughout with no ‘dangling wires' or design rule violations.
AutoTRAX EDA allows you to create your own parts either in-place on your design sheets or using the integrated Part Creator.
Once you have created your design you can rapidly simulate it's analog performance using the build in virtual instruments such as oscilloscopes and signal generators. When you are satisfied with your design and simulation results, you can then quickly proceed to produce your finished and populated PCB board without leaving the AutoTRAX program.
The AutoTRAX PCB Designer will take your hierarchical design and place the components, with or without your assistance. Next AutoTRAX can either autoroute your board or you can use a combination of automatic and manual routing to quickly and reliably complete all electrical wiring.
The design of AutoTRAX's internal data ensures you main full electrical integrity with your schematic design.
No surprises with lost or missing PCB tracks or wires, or those ‘extra' wires. Now that you have your design finished and routed you can then produce all Computer Aided Manufacturing files you will need to produce the board, drill the holes, cut it's profile, order parts using the Bill Of Materials, and place your parts using the pick and place files.
Here are some key features of "AutoTRAX EDA":
· Microsoft Office style interface
· Unlimited number of sheets and sheet size. All sheets are named
· Any number of layers
· Open any number of designs at once and cut and paste between them
· Effect unlimited zoom and precise interactive panning in real-time
· Multiple zoom commands
· Enhanced smart panning (patent applied for)
· Full screen mode
· Print preview
· Highest quality printing. Support for large format ink jet printer
· E-mail support. Easily e-mail design to your work colleagues and clients
· Automatically reload last project
· Effective infinite number of undos/redos. All design states are named
· Draw lines, open and closed polygons, bezier curves, square and rounded edge rectangles, circles, ellipses, text and bitmap images
· Multiple line style
· Multiple fill styles including fountain and bitmap/image fill
· Rotate and mirror object
· Snap to grid or add horizontal/vertical or point Visio style guides
· Horizontal and vertical viewport rulers. ( can be turned off)
· Choose between a graph style background grid, dot grid, line grid or no grid
· CorelDraw style color chooser toolbar
· Align objects by left, right, bottom or top edges or align their vertical or horizontal centers
· Distribute objects evenly vertically or horizontally.
· Order overlying objects
· Automatically center the drawing
· Form a rectangular array of objects
· Fully configurable toolbars and menus
· Fully configurable keyboard shortcuts
· Split viewport up into 2 or 4 separate views
· Status bar
· Docking and floating toolbars
· Object properties toolbar
· AutoTRAX automatically remembers your previous window and toolbar positions. Previous directories used and setting are also remembered
· Docking/floating design component library toolbar.
· Docking/floating user design library toolbar
· Part Editor
· Drag and drop parts from the component library toolbar onto the sheet
· Add electrical wires and buses. Connect parts together with the confidence that only comes with AutoTRAX’s comprehensive design integrity checking. No more dangling wires, terminals that connect to ‘fresh air’ and signal/power mismatches.
· Add ‘No Connect’ symbols to unconnected terminals
· Add Off-Page connectors.
· Add virtual electrical instruments such as function generators, multimeters and oscilloscopes
· Double-click on the virtual instruments to view the simulation results
· Perform SPICE 3F5 simulation and analysis.
· Comprehensive SPICE components modelers
· Show/Hide design errors
· Single click export to the PCB Designer
· Bill of Materials (BOM)
· HTML help
· Online support, including wish lists!
Requirements:
· Intel Pentium or equivalent processor
· 256 MB RAM
· 200 MB hard disk space
· 800x600 minimum display resolution with 256 colors or more. (1024x768 or larger recommended)
Limitations:
· Limited to 100 pins and can only be used for non-profit purposes.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added PDF export.
· The actual design files can optionally be embedded in the PDF file.
· Improved autorouter.
· Works on Vista and Windows 7
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