Benefits of Design Data Management:
The design management tools enable users to reduce design cycle times and design environment costs of ownership through increased efficiency and security, better resource management, and reduced defects.

• Centralized data and information hub allows easy access to project data, reducing cycle times.

• Version management and history tracking helps prevent defects.

• Infrastructure simplifies user’s experience with common administration, data access control, and security.

• Automatically extracts design data at check-in, allowing instant status tracking, and analysis without opening authoring tools, making project management more efficient.

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The built-in design data management capabilities include:

• Version management of objects, managing design roll-back versions

• History tracking of source data for make-from designs

• Control of project-specific user access and review distribution/approvals

• Support for full design concurrency in a managed way

• Complete history/family-tree for design traceability

• Template-driven design to reduce project start up times

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Process integration across the flow manages and tracks:

• The designer’s cockpit, from which authoring applications are launched and managed

• Changes in schematic, layout, analysis, and FPGA optimization tools

• Full project reporting with visibility to metrics such as number of connections, total versus completed connections, total versus placed parts or pins, number of rules/constraints, completion rate, and open hazard counts