Zuken Supports Education Program at the University of Missouri Rolla with Free Licenses of CR-5000 Lightning

April 10th, 2007 - Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA � Zuken, the engineering consulting company, is committed to developing interests and skills of tomorrow�s engineers by offering free use of CR-5000 Lightning Scenario to students enrolled in the Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Design course at the University of Missouri Rolla.

This leading-edge signal integrity (SI) design and analysis tool, which is part of Zuken�s CR-5000 enterprise-wide design environment, provides a �what-if� scratchpad, allowing designers to create SI related scenarios that can be simulated to test their design strategies. It can be used to create purely experimental circuits or extract equivalent circuits from the schematic or physical layout.

When selecting a tool to base the course upon, Professor James Drewniak said it was a simple choice that came down to the integration capabilities of CR-5000 Lightning Scenario.

Drewniak explained: �Today tools are very fragmented. We really need to be able to do all the work in one place. Otherwise I spend all my time exporting, importing, and re-developing my problem or pieces of it, which is cumbersome, time-consuming, and inefficient.�

�The paradigm for CR-5000 is integration, so that an engineer can summon all of these resources from the enterprise tool (CR-5000), and then be able to readily integrate the results into the design simulation.�

The course on Signal Integrity at the University of Missouri Rolla is the first of its kind offered by the institution and is aimed at senior undergraduates and early graduate students. It is also available as a distance education course for practicing engineers, with tutorials presented over the web.

This educational endeavour follows on from Zuken's longstanding relationship with the University of Missouri Rolla, which includes active participation in the UMR EMC Consortium for over 10 years. The goal of this partnership is to develop algorithms for fast and trustworthy prediction of the sources of EMC problems on complete PCBs. Results of this joint research have been incorporated in Zuken�s CR-5000 Lightning EMC add-on product.

For more information about CR-5000 Lightning Scenario visit www.zuken.com/cr-5000-lightning/ and for further details about the courses offered by the University of Missouri Rolla see www.umr.edu

About Zuken

Zuken is trusted globally by leading companies to optimize their electrical and electronic engineering design and related manufacturing processes. Our unique combination of proven experience, technological expertise and agility, creates electronic design automation (EDA) solutions as well as computer aided engineering (CAE) solutions that are innovative, dynamic and powerful.

With over 30 years experience, Zuken has grown to become the world�s leading provider of EDA software and electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM). Our solutions optimize the efficiency of electronics and electrical R&D, engineering, manufacturing, new product introduction (NPI), component purchasing and component engineering in the PCB/MCM/HIC market. Listed on Level 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Zuken improves product quality and profitability for elect rical and electronics manufacturers globally, from automotive to aerospace, communications to consumer electronics, power to heavy machinery and medical to military markets. With headquarters in Japan, we have development and support centers in 10 countries � including the US, Germany, UK, France, Italy, China and Taiwan � and are a trusted partner of more than 4,800 organizations, with over 45,000 individual licenses, worldwide.

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