Zuken is offering a simulation design kit for Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs. The kit is free to customers who have a maintenance agreement.

The download service delivers design kits for the latest version of Zuken's high-speed design environment CR-5000 Lightning, including simulation models, net topology templates and associated documentation.

The aim is to speed up analysis and verification of PCB design that include Spartan-3 FPGAs.

“Preliminary verification of PCBs using signal integrity (SI) simulation is very important; conducting an effective test with minimum effort is a key issue," said Werner Rissiek, European general manager for engineering.

"We have received a lot of requests from customers for the Spartan-3 FPGA simulation kit since last year's Virtex-5 family simulation kit announcement and we'll soon be offering support for the Extended Spartan-3A family. Using our new simulation kit, a circuit engineer can speedily and easily evaluate signal integrity of memory I/O without the need for onerous preparation."

More information: http://support.zuken.co.uk