Perception Software and Agile Software Corporation, provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, jointly announced an agreement to provide Perception's EDAConnect product as part of the Agile 9 PLM Engineering Collaboration solution. Under the agreement, Agile will sell EDAConnect to its Agile 9 customers.
Chris Wong, executive vice president, corporate strategy, Agile, said, "Our customers increasingly want to integrate the electronics design process into their product lifecycle. Partners like Perception are an important part of our overall strategy to continue to broaden and deepen our solution capabilities to meet their needs."
Tim Dehne, senior vice president of R&D at NI, stated, "EDAConnect will help us automate the synchronization of our schematic and Agile bills of materials. We also expect to see more part attribute data being driven from Agile into our ECAD library tool."
EDAConnect is available immediately through the Agile direct sales force.
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