PCB Design Software & Tools
Addressing PCB Design Applications
PCB designs grow increasingly complex and challenging with each technological advance. Add globally dispersed design and manufacturing teams to the mix, and the collaboration hurdles make projects difficult at best. PCB design software helps companies meet market demands, facilitate global collaboration, accelerate time-to-market, increase profit margins, and optimize/improve PCB reliability.
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Training
We have training courses available for PCB engineers in our training centers around the world, online, or at your site.
PCB Design Tasks
Solutions for common PCB design tasks:
PCB Design Flows
Expedition Enterprise
Designing a product requires more than just a great PCB layout tool – you need tightly integrated PCB design software. Expedition Enterprise provides this high level of integration, enabling all team members to work collaboratively and more efficiently.
PADS
PADS PCB design solutions are created for designers by designers. They cover the entire design flow, from design definition through signal integrity analysis, functional simulation, layout and outputs to manufacturing.
Board Station
The global business environment drives increasing pressure on Board Station® customers to stay competitive. As a result, companies need to get their products to market faster and improve productivity while designing more complex products.
White Papers
How Successful OEMs Improve Product Quality while Saving Time and Money with PCB NPI
This paper identifies how Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and smoother handoffs between design and manufacturing avoid costly problems and wasted effort during NPI, resulting in improved efficiency and PCB... View White Paper
High Speed PCB Layout: Physical Design Issues of Highspeed Interfaces
Moore’s law, applied to data rates, has pushed PCB circuits so fast that the layout becomes part of the circuit. In designs such as DDR3 and PCIe, the fastest memory and high-speed serial performance... View White Paper
Adopting the Library and Data Management Solutions of Best-in-Class Companies in the Electronics Industry
The design of electronic products is driven by continuous changes and data management challenges, which companies somehow manage. This paper emphasizes the criticality of library and data management from... View White Paper