Perception Software’s focus is to help reduce the time, cost, and risk of electronic design by providing unique functionality at the intersection of existing EDA and PLM applications.
 
This intersection offers a host of unaddressed problems and
manual, error prone procedures that Perception’s products address. The investment required to successfully install and deploy a PLM system can reach 10’s of millions of dollars and take years. For a company that designs or manufactures products with high electronic content, the ultimate success and ROI of a large PLM application investment can depend, quite simply, on how the electronic design community views its participation in the PLM process. Of course, there are examples of top-down directives that force compliance, but history has shown that the most successful PLM implementations are those that allow the engineering community to remain in their native design application space, while performing all of the tasks required by the PLM workflow process with as little disruption as possible. To date, those implementations have been mostly done with custom application programming, and are scoped and delivered to solve a finite set of EDA/PLM integration issues – a point in time solution. Perception’s approach is to build a standard product set (EDAConnect) that addresses these issues, and can deal with all major PLM vendors and all major EDA clients with a single application. Customers are thenprotected when migrating from one version of PLM to another, migrating from one version of EDA tool to another, or switching vendors entirely, something that is impossible to provide with custom, point-in-time solutions.