Schematic Generation Module helps electrical engineers, PCB designers and test engineers to visualize, explore and debug netlist and schematic data as well as publish it.  Schematic Generation Module supports multiple netlist and schematic formats including OrCAD, PADS, Powerlogic, DxDesigner /Viewdraw, PCAD, etc. and standard netlist formats such as IPC-D-356. Schematic Generation Module generates intelligent schematics from standard PCB netlists and presents them within its own visual environment.  In addition, Schematic Generation Module exports schematic designs to searchable PDF schematics to be navigated using PDF Viewers.  Schematic Generation Module produces PDF files that can keep hierarchy, net attributes, and component attributes of the original design, and at the same time, allow net tracing on or between the pages.

Schematic Generation Module supports multiple PCB netlist formats, IPC-D-356 netlist and EDIF netlists as well.  A user opens a PCB Netlist in the tool and can use Netlist Browser to navigate through the data with reports available for every object. Schematic generation is intelligent and configurable. The built-in algorithm recognizes patterns in the PCB netlist and generates a schematic in such a way that it is simple to navigate for a PCB designer or a test engineer. The colors, page size, title block, net/bus recognition, and other parameters, can be selected for each generation run in accordance with user preferences. Symbols can be built using different vendor-styles in order for generated schematics to look familiar to the user of a particular vendor system.  A user can navigate through the generated schematic within the Schematic Generation Module environment or output that schematic to PDF with net tracing capability preserved.