At 05:10 PM 10/18/99 -0400, Sullivan, William wrote:
>Good afternoon Tech neters,
>
>        My name is Bill, Supervisor of PCB design for one of the largest
>probe card manufactures in the world. it is my mission to compile the best
>compatible software for our industry. For those of you that do not know,
>probe cards are round. this shape gives me a very large problem at auto
>route time.
>
>        I am currently looking at Cadence Allegro for the design portion of
>the job with the Zuken-Redac radial router as a bolt on. Zuken dose not want
>to play ball. they what to sell me the whole package. no dice!!!
>
>dose anybody Know of another bolt on that would accommodate this very
>strange application.    Please Help.
>

I am in a similar situation - we have developed a special die pad redistribution tool
(whose routing requirements are very similar to probe cards and test boards)
and wanted to interface directly to-from the Zuken radial router. So far Zuken has
not said yes and has not said no...

The reason is probably that Zuken is not sure at the moment what to do - the router
is pretty good - it beat Specctra in the benchmark we did (Zuken routed 100% in 5 minutes;
Specctra did not complete the job...) but I think they want to use it to leverage sales
of their tools and not as a back end.

Another issue is the interface - Zuken's router has its own interface language so
I am not sure how the bolt on would be done.

Anyway keep me posted via this group and I'll let you know what I hear from our
situation.


SDB
PCTOOLs
Microelectronic Tools and Utiltiies

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