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GigHz, an engineering services company specializing in ECAD, MCAD, EDA conversion, and analysis solutions, provides Electronic Design Automation (EDA) conversion services that support the migration of PCB design data between multiple CAD and EDA platforms. The company’s capability is focused on preserving legacy design data, consolidating design environments, and enabling the transfer of engineering projects while maintaining design integrity throughout the conversion process.
The company supports conversions between a wide range of CAD systems, including Altium, Cadence, Mentor, Zuken, Pulsonix, Eagle, Protel, OrCAD, Allegro, Pads, Expedition, Cadstar, DX Designer, Concept HDL, and PCAD. Its services cover schematic translation and conversion, PCB layout translation, ECAD library conversions, Gerber file translation into preferred layout tools, and design integrity verification supported by detailed reporting.
GigHz supports schematic conversions for formats including Altium Designer, Altium PCAD, Altium Protel, Cadence OrCAD Capture, Cadence Concept HDL, Mentor PADS Powerlogic, Mentor DxDesigner, Zuken Cadstar, Zuken CR5000, EDIF200/300/400, and Eagle.
The company’s CAD translation workflow begins with the collection of customer design inputs, including PCB databases, schematics, layouts, libraries, Bills of Materials (BOMs), Design Rule Check (DRC) requirements, layer stack-up information, and documentation templates. Automated translation tools are then used to convert PCB design databases into the target EDA environment.
Following translation, GigHz reviews and edits converted schematics and layouts to address any properties affected during the automated process. A complete DRC review is conducted to identify and correct rule violations. The company also performs schematic and layout netlist comparisons to verify consistency across design elements.
As part of the process, Gerber outputs are adjusted according to the original project requirements to support fabrication and manufacturing. The workflow concludes with documentation and release packages that provide organized information about the translated CAD data for deployment within the target EDA platform.
The company’s EDA data interchange process is designed to maintain design integrity, retain electrical constraints, preserve design data through detailed reporting, and support automated verification. The process also supports customizable mapping of user-defined properties, migration of logical and physical databases together, and generation of functional design outputs intended to preserve original design behavior after conversion.
The company applies custom property mapping techniques and validation procedures throughout the migration process to support accurate CAD conversions while preserving the structure and integrity of source design data. Through these capabilities, GigHz provides EDA conversion services for organizations transitioning designs between different engineering software environments.
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