Design data management with Xpedition

The Xpedition data management suite manages the data created, reused, imported, or released from the Xpedition-based design flow, providing a centralized data and information hub for PCB designs.

Benefits of Design Data Management:

The design management tools enable users to reduce design cycle times and design
environment costs of ownership through increased efficiency and security, better resource management, and reduced defects.

• Centralized data and information hub allows easy access to project data, reducing cycle times.
• Version management and history tracking helps prevent defects.
• Infrastructure simplifies user’s experience with common administration, data access control,
  and security.
• Automatically extracts design data at check-in, allowing instant status tracking, and analysis without opening authoring tools, making project management more efficient.

The built-in design data management capabilities include:

• Version management of objects, managing design roll-back versions
• History tracking of source data for make-from designs
• Control of project-specific user access and review distribution/approvals
• Support for full design concurrency in a managed way
• Complete history/family-tree for design traceability
• Template-driven design to reduce project start up times

Process integration across the flow manages and tracks:

• The designer’s cockpit, from which authoring applications are launched and managed
• Changes in schematic, layout, analysis, and FPGA optimization tools
• Full project reporting with visibility to metrics such as number of connections, total versus completed connections, total versus placed parts or pins, number of rules/constraints,
  completion rate, and open hazard counts
• Synchronization status of schematic and layout prior to production release
• Generation of manufacturing outputs from the fully synchronized design, ensuring the complete production data package is from the most current design files

Collaboration management capabilities:

• Automated session management, allowing simple check out/in of the design data for each user
• Automatic management of the required collaboration sessions, supporting real-time collaboration between engineers and designers
• Red-line and markup capabilities for collaborating on design reviews, including comparison of design versions
• Support for outsourcing processes, enabling a consistent design data exchange with a third-party partner, such as a contract manufacturer or service bureau
• Approval management and notification services across team members
• Support for the EDX data exchange standard to ensure data integrity of shared design data throughout the extended enterprise

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