Design Architect

Design Architect is a design entry environment. It is more than a computer-aided schematic capture application. It is a multi-level design environment that includes: a Schematic Editor, a Symbol Editor, and the VHDL Editor.

Design Architect is the center of activity for most Mentor Graphics design process. Design Architect lets you create and edit logical designs that are used by downstream processed such as : board design, IC and PCB layout, and analog and digital simulation. Many applications return design information to Design Architect in the form of back annotation values. These values can merged into the original source file after editing. This cycle of creating a logical design, passing it into a downstream application for processing, and then passing new update property values back to Design Architect for editing is a common design process.

Design Architect offers a collection of functionality as following:

• Schematic capture
• Symbol creation
• Digital and analog component library access
• Property annotation
• VHDL creation