Printed Circuit Design & Fab Online Magazine - Pulsonix Releases Pulsonix 11.0 ECAD

Pulsonix version 11.0 offers significant speed improvements and new functionality for high-speed designs.

Dramatically reduces time to perform many PCB design operations, such as design rule checking (DRC), copper pouring and Gerber generation. Features a complete rewrite of the underlying graphics engine to utilize standard DirectX graphics and high-performance graphics cards such as those used in the gaming industry, to display some large designs up to 2.5 times faster. Extends multi-threading capabilities and adds to many functions, to significantly increase speed on features that are processor-intensive and that utilize parallel processing. DRCs can be more than four times faster with multi-threading using eight cores in parallel. New graphics improve rendering quality of design image being viewed. Other enhancements include:

• Same net via to SMD check: helps avoid technological problems during soldering of SMD components by ensuring a sufficient solder mask bridge between SMD pads and vias.

• Back drilling for high-speed designs: Using an easily created rule set, back drilling can be defined for critical nets that require the removal of unwanted via or component pin stubs on through-holes. This can significantly reduce signal integrity issues and signal distortion.

• Differential pair rules: The ability to create differential pairs from rules automates a typically manual and time-consuming process, especially when working on designs with hundreds of differential pairs.

• Creepage rules: These were introduced to calculate creepage paths for critical nets. This is needed to validate safety rules for specific designs, e.g., in medical devices.

• Extended character set (Unicode): Extended character and internationalization support using the Unicode standard has been added, as well as character sets for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

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