is a Japanese

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, specializing in software and

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services for end-to-end electrical and

electronic engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...

. Zuken came into existence as a pioneer in the development of

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systems in Japan to contribute to electronics manufacturing. The literal translation of Zuken is "graphics laboratory." Established in 1976 in

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, Japan, it is listed on the

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; net sales amounted to US$216 million for the year 2011. Zuken's software is primarily used for designing

printed circuit board A printed circuit board (PCB; also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in Electrical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a L ...

s (PCBs),

Multi-Chip Module A multi-chip module (MCM) is generically an electronic assembly (such as a package with a number of conductor terminals or "pins") where multiple integrated circuits (ICs or "chips"), semiconductor dies and/or other discrete components are int ...

s, and for the engineering of electrotechnical,

wiring Electrical wiring is an electrical installation of cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets, and light fittings in a structure. Wiring is subject to safety standards for design and installation. Allowable ...

, wiring harness,

pneumatics Pneumatics (from Greek ‘wind, breath’) is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air. Pneumatic systems used in industry are commonly powered by compressed air or compressed inert gases. A centrally located and elec ...

and

hydraulics Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counter ...

applications. Furthermore, Zuken offers software for electrical and electronic engineering

data management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource. Concept The concept of data management arose in the 1980s as technology moved from sequential processing (first punched cards, then magnetic tape) to r ...

(e- PLM). The company's key markets are the

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– which includes digital home electrical appliances;

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communications devices;

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equipment, such as

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, special vehicles and

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; industrial equipment, such as medical equipment and devices; and construction

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. Zuken also has a strong presence in the

aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

and space industries. Zuken is one of four major

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companies which specialize in PCB design software, the others being

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Mentor Graphics Siemens EDA is a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Founded in 1981 as Mentor Graphics, the company was acquired by Siemens in ...

and partly

Altium Altium Limited is an Australian multinational software company that provides electronic design automation software to engineers who design printed circuit boards. Founded as Protel Systems Pty Ltd in Australia in 1985, the company has regional ...

History

*1976 Zuken Inc. Established. *1978 Released "CREATE-2000" (CR-2000) for PC (

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Platform). *1983 Zuken America Inc. (Now: Zuken

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Inc.) established. *1985 Released Logic Design Workstation for

UNIX Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and ot ...

Platform. *1988 Released

CAM Calmodulin (CaM) (an abbreviation for calcium-modulated protein) is a multifunctional intermediate calcium-binding messenger protein expressed in all eukaryotic cells. It is an intracellular target of the secondary messenger Ca2+, and the bind ...

for PCB "CR-3000" for

Platform. *1991 Listed on

Level-2. *1992 Zuken Europe GmbH. (Germany) Established. *1992 Zuken Korea Inc. (Seoul) Established. *1992 Zuken Singapore Pte. Ltd. Established. *1993 Zuken Inc. China (Beijing) Established. *1994 Acquired

Racal-Redac Ltd. Racal Electronics plc was a British electronics company that was founded in 1950. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, Racal was a diversified company, offering products including voice loggers an ...

*1994 Listed on

Level-1 *1994 Released

for PCB "

CR-5000 CR-5000 is Zuken's EDA design suite for electronics systems and printed circuit boards aimed at the enterprise market. It was developed to tackle complex design needs that involve managing the complete development and manufacturing preparation proce ...

" for

& PC Platform. *1994 Released Data Management System "PDM-5000". *1996 Realvision Inc. Established. *2000 Acquired Incases Engineering GmbH (Germany). *2000 Zuken Tecnomatix Inc. established. *2001 Zuken NetWave Inc. established. *2002 Zuken

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Technical Center Co. Ltd. established. *2005 Zuken

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Inc. established. *2006 Acquired CIM-Team GmbH (Germany), which develops "E³.series". *2014 Acquired Intedis GmbH & Co. KG *2015 Acquired CAETEK Inc. *2019 Acquired Vitech Corporation

Products

* Visula - a historically important EDA tool by Redac of

taken over by Zuken *

CR-8000 CR-8000 is a EDA suite launched by Japanese EDA vendor Zuken in 2011. Developed to serve the needs of multi-board level design CR-8000 is a next generation replacement for CR-5000 that was originally focused on single-board design. CR-8000 makes us ...

- 2D and 3D, multi-board system design *

- Zuken's enterprise-wide PCB design software platform for both analogue and digital PCB design. CR-5000 includes modules such as System Designer, Board Designer, Lightning, Package Predictor/Synthesizer. The program runs on both UNIX and Windows. * Design Gateway - Circuit design creation software. It is positioned within Zuken's CR-5000 enterprise-wide software for electronics systems design and is at the core of its constraints driven design and verification process. *E³.series - This is the most recent addition to the Zuken family of products. It is a Windows-based electrical design software for wiring, harnesses, cable, fluid, hydraulics, and panel design. * Cabling Designer - This is a design tool that integrates with

Catia CATIA (, an acronym of computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application) is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), 3D modeling and Product lif ...

for wire harness design. Modules include Cabling Designer, Harness Designer, Topology Designer, Simulation and Verifications. *

CADSTAR CADSTAR is a Windows-based electronic design automation (EDA) software tool for designing and creating schematic diagrams and printed circuit boards (PCBs). It provides engineers with a tool for designing simple or complex, multilayer PCBs. CADS ...

- A desktop software for producing schematic and PCB designs. * eCADSTAR - An Internet connected PCB design platform. * DS-2 - Zuken's Electronic Product Lifecycle Management tool.

References

External links

Official Zuken Website in English
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