Digi-Key Electronics has announced an exclusive, global agreement to distribute software and design data from Accelerated Designs. Accelerated Designs focuses on providing EDA-tool-neutral software and data to engineers and electronics manufacturers that improves the efficiency of adding and managing new parts when designing circuits and printed circuit boards.
Randall Restle, Digi-Key vice-president of application engineering, said: “Digi-Key is extremely pleased to sign Accelerated Designs as a supplier.This means engineers can obtain libraries of symbols and footprints for hundreds of thousands Digi-Key’s parts, indexed with a Digi-Key part number, and compatible with your EDA tool.”
Accelerated Designs’ Ultra Librarian uses the concept of templates to create parts, which is claimed to increase the accuracy, speed, and consistency of part creation and allows global changes to be made to your library. It also allows the user to build their component accurately one time and then export it to a CAD tool of their choice. Additionally, Accelerated Designs is said to provide the industry’s’ largest library of components with 7.2million parts.
Restle added: “Manufacturers supplying Digi-Key now have a partner that can help reduce a barrier in customers adopting their new devices.By virtue of working with Accelerated Designs to build libraries of symbols and footprints of their newest devices, Digi-Key will automatically distribute those design assets for them.”
Author
Tom Austin-Morgan
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk