Tewkesbury, Goucestershire Racal Electronics Plc subsidiary Racal-Redac Systems Ltd has come up with the EMC Adviser, an electronic design automation tool which controls the electro-magnetic interference of printed circuit boards or multi-chip modules. From 1996 all electrical products used in Europe must comply with European Community laws regarding electromagnetic emissions, and the EMC Adviser aims to establish design compliance through design integrity meters. The firm claims that this is the first product that shows the user on screen whether a product is compliant with electromagnetic radiation rules, and suggests what can be done to ensure it is. The Adviser, which costs $15,000, should then reduce the time spent at the radiation test houses, which cost an average of UKP1,000 a day. Racal-Redac has also set an autumn shipment date for the Expert 3.0 series of integrated electronic design software and for NT versions of its MS-DOS-based Cadstar product and also its workstation-based Route Editor 2000.
