Supported PCB Design Systems

IO Checker supports the majority of Schematic Capture / PCB development systems from the leading vendors Altium, Cadence, Mentor Graphics and Zuken.

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
• Mentor Graphics
  • Board Station
  • Design Capture
  • DxDesigner
  • PADS
  • VeriBest
• Pulsonix
• Zuken
  • CADSTAR
  • CR-5000
  • CR-8000

Support by file format

• Altium native (using an extension)
• EDIF (VeriBest)
• Cadence packaged netlist (pstxnet.dat, pstchip.dat)
• Cadence Board file PCB (.brd)
• Cadence Telesis netlist (.tel)
• Zuken RINF netlist (.frs)
• Zuken NDF netlist (.ndf)
• Mentor DxDesigner 'Quick Connection View' (.qcv)
• Mentor Packager cross ref. netlist (.pxr)
• Mentor Board Station netlist (.net, nets.txt)
• PADS ascii database (.asc)

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