Supported PCB Design Systems

BoardTrace supports the majority of Schematic Capture / PCB development systems from the leading vendors Altium, Cadence, Mentor Graphics and Zuken. Different formats may be used within a single project.

Most interfaces are based on a netlist generated by the PCB system. If your PCB system is not present please check if it is capable of generating one of the netlists presented below. If you have a netlist format which is currently not supported please contact HDL Works. Adding a new format can often be realized in a short time frame.

Support by Vendor

Altium
- Altium Designer
Cadence Design Systems
- Allegro
- Orcad
KiCad
Mentor Graphics
- Board Station
- Design Capture
- DxDesigner
- PADS
- VeriBest
Pulsonix
Zuken
- CADSTAR
- CR-5000
- CR-8000

Support by file format

Cadence packaged netlist (pstxnet.dat, pstchip.dat)
Cadence Board file PCB (.brd)
Cadence Telesis netlist (.tel)
CSV file (generic CSV files, vendor independent)
Intel Schematic Compatibility Format (ISCF)
IPC-D-356
Mentor DxDesigner 'Quick Connection View' (.qcv)
Mentor Packager cross ref. netlist (.pxr)
Mentor Board Station netlist (.net, nets.txt)
Mentor keyin netlist (.key)
ODB++
PADS ascii database (.asc)
XML (Altium Designer extension)
Zuken RINF netlist (.frs)
Zuken NDF netlist (.ndf)

The generic CSV file import can be used to add a full netlist or a stub for just one component (connector) defining the signals attached to the component. This can be used when you don't have access to the full netlist of a COTS board.

Module verification Back Next Altium Designer extension

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