AutoTRAX DEX PCB Designer Design Features

Unified Platform

Traditional electronics design systems haven’t evolved much — at least not for most EDA vendors. This becomes evident in how they continue to struggle with today’s increasingly complex design challenges. Their fragmented approach — piecing together separate tools — inevitably breaks down as demands grow. It’s an unsustainable model that makes innovation difficult, especially when relying on inconsistent design applications and unreliable data exchanges.

DEX takes a different approach.

Built from the ground up, DEX is a comprehensive, single-application electronics development environment. It includes all the advanced tools you need to capture and simulate hardware, design PCBs, collaborate with MCAD, manage ECAD data and documentation, and oversee your project from initial concept through to production — all within a single, unified platform.

What truly sets DEX apart is its unified data model. Rather than linking together disconnected applications, DEX enables every design tool to work from one centralized source of design data—from component models to full sub-assemblies. This means one project, one data model, and one development environment, accessible and consistent across the entire team.

With this unified design data available across the platform, synchronization is seamless and data management becomes straightforward — removing complexity and opening the door to true innovation.

Schematics

With DEX you can quickly transform your ideas into reality using the comprehensive hierarchical schematic capture features and fully constraint driven design.

DEX’s powerful and easy to use schematic capture enables you to design your printed circuit boards quickly and reliably and be confident that the design will work. You are guided during the design process with interactive symbols, or to routing of into symbol wires and fully integrated and synchronous PCB design. Gone are the days of forward and back annotation as there is absolutely no need for such prehistoric ideas, because your design is contained in one project file: changes in a schematic of automatically reflected in your PCB layout and similarly any changes in your PCB layout are instantly reflected in your associated schematics.

Simulation

Accurately simulate helps you create your design first time with integrated XSPICE analog & digital simulation.

You can place real instruments such as oscilloscopes and signal generators directly onto your schematics and you will see the output and input change in real-time.

Not only is it easy to do but it is also fun.

• Real-time oscilloscope
• Full features signal generator
• Adjustable power supplies
• XSpice simulation based on Spice 3.5

Pcb Design

• Real-time DRC.
• Shape-based routing.
• Manual routing.
• Auto-layout.
• Unlimited layers.
• Unlimited board size.
• Full floating-point internal data giving accuracies down to the atomic level.