EdaXML Import Module Newly Enhanced in 2008! Design for Testability has evolved over the past decade in a way that seems to quietly depart from the most valuable facet of the discipline – Design for Diagnosability (at the Systems’ Integration Level). What value is all of that time expended to put designs in CAD/CAE doing for the support of the product in Vehicle and end product systems? We must really look at leveraging this data in CAD beyond the manufacturing house and allow it to map to the support for the end product in the field (storage or operation). DSI has founded the fundamental implementation for Design for Testability in the 1960’s and has always kept the vision of supporting the soldier or end product customer at its paramount commitment. Not allowing the investment of designs put into CAD to be irrelevant to full-systems diagnostic integration processes, DSI has continued to enhance its tools to be major role players in the design influence and Systems Engineering processes. Over the last 15 years, DSI has provided various imports from EDIF, Mentor, Cadence, etc. Today, we are now proud to announce the latest generation of import. This new import capability is the highest quality import available today, and utilizes a EdaXML, as provided to industry via Elgris Technologies, Inc to provide a CAD/CAE interoperability product called E-Studio Pro, which can convert to and from nearly all of today's major CAD tools. CAD Compatibility Cadence Mentor DesignArchitect Viewlogic/Innoveda PADS P-CAD OrCAD Import Capabilities Objects, Ports & Nets, including full naming Object Layout / Positioning Control over Re-importing Attributes   Original EDA File (displayed in the E-Tools environment) Imported Schematic in eXpress eXpress's is unique by its ability to completely handle these three EDA importing challenges: Initial Import The data must be reproduced so that engineers can still recognize it! eXpress's approach allows the EDA data to be reproduced nearly identically to the original. The EDA data provides the definition for eXpress's structural model--consisting of objects, ports and nets. This is the baseline for other eXpress data. eXpress does not have to change this representation to add any other data element! This way, you keep the drawing looking the way it originally did, as you add support for testability analysis. Quality of Import CAD tools are functional representations! eXpress is the only testability analysis tool that thinks the way an EDA tool does. Since eXpress is a functional model (with failure modes as an overlay), you do not have to somehow resolve converting functional flow (as is captured by an EDA tool) into failure mode flow (more likely to be associated with a reliability block diagram). Subsequent Updates Updates must retain supplemental data added in eXpress Importing is rarely a one-shot event. Instead, to truly become part of the engineering process, you must be able to refresh the data. Of course, this must be done without disturbing any added information. This is where eXpress's unique data layering is especially powerful. Once the EDA has been imported the addition of functions, failure modes, tests, failure effects, etc. is all done as an overlay. When a new version of the data becomes available, you can re-import the schematic without losing your data. In fact, you can even choose if you want objects to be repositioned repositioned, net connectivity to be updated, etc.