SuperMax for Embedded Components

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Note: Training will be opened only with a minimum number of attendees

Duration

3 days

Pricing

6000 ILS
1176 EUR

Description

The Supermax ECAD design tool provides the most comprehensive technology available for Advanced Technology designs.You will examine every step of the design process in lectures; including component placement, interconnect routing and manufacturing data generation. Lab exercises provide you with hands-on tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry-expert instructors reinforcing the design process steps covered in the lecture.
 

You will learn how to

• Create a design outline geometry
• Define and edit embedded passives
• Define bare-die components
• Setup design rules for automatic clearance checking
• Use placement tools to automatically or interactively place components on a design. Including components in cavities
• Use routing tools to complete route trace connections
• Design with RF elements.
• Create filled or hatched copper areas, split power planes, and thieving
• Create the data necessary to manufacture the board including: artwork, and drilling data; and fabrication and assembly drawings

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience in using SuperMax under the guidance of our expert instructors. Hands-on lab topics include:
 

• Building a design outline geometry
• Placing components on a design using various interactive and automatic techniques
• Setting design rules including rules for layers and clearances
• Routing net connections interactively
• Creating copper areas for power and ground planes
• Generating artwork, drill and mill data
• Creating fabrication and assembly drawings

Audience

• PCB Designers and Technicians
• Electrical Engineers who will be directing or performing their own circuit board layout
• CAD Engineers and Managers who are responsible for integrating Supermax ECAD into their design flow
• Members of CAD supports groups who are responsible for increased productivity of Advanced Technology design teams 
  

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of PCB design techniques and theory. Experience designing printed circuit boards is a definite plus.

Key Topics

• Starting Supermax ECAD
• Supermax ECAD Handling
• Exercise: Loading a design
• Redraw
• Pan
• ZoomPad and Trace Display
• Object Search Order
• Working Area, Origin and Grids
• Origin and DataOrigin
• Coordinates
• Input unit and List unit
• Examples of valid coordinates entries
• Project, Technology and Rule Set
• Starting a Design
• Layer Setup
• Selecting Materials and Building a Layer Structure
• The Material file
• Pads and Padstacks
• Footprint
• Building a Footprint Using the Wizard
• Footprints for Wirebonding
• Design Rules
• The Design Outline
• Netlist (List of Components and Nets)
• Loading the Netlist
• Partial dielectric –Cross over technology
• Exercise: Design settings
• Synthesizing capacitors
• Integrated resistors
• Selecting resistor material
• Feasibility study, Pre planning
• Set up Resistor settings
• Editing of embedded resistors
• Wirebonding
• Wirebonding Rules
• Automatic Bondpad placement
• Manual Editing of Bondpad placement
• Selecting Objects
• Component Placement Options
• Component Placement
• Optimizing Component Placement
• Cleaning the Screen from Highlights
• Advanced wire bonding and cavities
• Check (DRC)
• Checking Component Placement
• Net Properties
• Plane Areas
• Routing Strategy, Manual or Automatic
• Routing and Editing Tools
• Interactive Routing and Editing
• Using the Advanced Editor
• Manual Routing Advanced Editor Setup
• Snapping
• Finding Incomplete Connections
• Test Points
• Handling ECO's
• Areas
• Obstruction Area Types
• Filled Area Types
• Checking the Design
• Post-processing
• Generating Manufacturing Data
• The Production Wizard
• Importing Generated Manufacturing Data
• RF Design
• Building a Custom Design Pad Outlook