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National Semiconductor and Accelerated Designs, Inc. Provide
Complete Symbol Model Library for Quick System Designs
Thousands of Symbol Models Now Available for Free Download
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 22, 2007 - National Semiconductor Corp. and Accelerated Designs
Inc. announced today they have collaborated on an Ultra Librarian Reader (ULR) to provide
National’s customers with schematic symbols and printed circuit board footprints for National's
entire product portfolio including National’s PowerWise® family of energy-efficient, highperformance analog products. This effort will accelerate time to market for every new customer
design.
Delivered in a computer-aided design (CAD) vendor-neutral format, the ULR is free of
charge and converts easily into a library compatible with any of the leading electronic design
automation (EDA) design tools. The ULR is a subset of the complete Accelerated Designs Ultra
Librarian toolset and generates components and their attributes in virtually any EDA CAD/CAE
format.
The ULR (both footprints and symbols) is available now for download at
http://www.national.com/cad/. The standard National footprints generated by the ULR are
based on the IPC-7351 specification. An enhanced version of the Accelerated Designs Ultra
Librarian software is also available for purchase. The enhanced package enables software
models to be modified and auto-generated to meet any user-defined requirement.
“National is committed to ease of use and helping its customers get into production as
quickly as possible,” said Phil Gibson, National’s vice president of technical sales. “The
Accelerated Designs Ultra Librarian library provides a flexible way to release symbol models in
every format, for any customer, with the release of a new product making those customers more
successful faster.”
About National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor, the industry's premier analog company, creates high-value analog
devices and subsystems. National's leading-edge products include power management circuits,
display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, interface products and data conversion
solutions. National's key analog markets include wireless handsets, displays, communications
infrastructure, medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., National reported sales of $1.93 billion for fiscal 2007,
which ended May 27, 2007. Additional company and product information is available at
www.national.com.
About Accelerated Designs, Inc.
Accelerated Designs, Inc. is a privately held company located it Huntsville, Alabama. It provides
integrated circuit vendors, electronic manufacturers and electronic engineers with a one-stop
source of data for all computer-aided design (CAD), simulation, 3D models and other
engineering data in a form that allows them to customize the data to meet their own company
requirements and the requirements of their customers. Its industrial-sized library tool, Ultra
Librarian, and an existing library of 500,000 electronic design automation CAD parts can be
ported to any CAD tool. Additional company information is available at www.accelerateddesigns.com.
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PowerWise® is a registered trademark of National Semiconductor Corporation.