Affinity electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG) final finish is for printed circuit board fabrication. Reportedly provides excellent performance in start-and-stop operation. Delivers stability in phosphorus content; eliminates startup dummy requirements, and operates under a range of bath loading. Has built-in protection against black line nickel. Includes pretreatment chemicals for removal of solder mask residues. Activation eliminates deposition in non-plated through-holes.
MacDermid Electronics Solutions, http://electronics.macdermid.com/
Pyralux high temperature flexible circuit material system has service temp. of 225°C. Includes double-sided copper-clad laminate and all-polyimide bonding film that becomes flexible coverlay after processing. Is offered in range of dielectric thicknesses.
DuPont Circuit & Packaging Materials, www.dupont.com
LCP printed circuit technology reportedly helps provide printed circuit boards with lines and spaces below 50µm and multi-Layer high density interconnect and signal integrity beyond 40GHz in all applications, including rigid and rigid flex PCBs.
HSIO Technologies, www.hsiotech.com
Library Expert Lite v. 2015.08 auto-generates footprints and 3D STEP models from component dimensions. Automates PCB library creation with 21 different CAD tool interfaces. Exports component lead terminals in a CAD library on a mechanical layer. 3D STEP model colors now definable in the Calculator and saved to FPX. Bill of materials search available quickly locates parts in a library. Contour courtyards. New XML viewer for unique component packages.
PCB Libraries, www.pcblibraries.com
PCBWorks PCB design tool is said to enhance workflow collaboration between electrical and mechanical designers. Includes collaboration tools to integrate design data with SolidWorks mechanical design software. Includes schematic capture and PCB layout tools along with an easy-to-use interface that works in tandem with existing mechanical workflows in SolidWorks. Design data between components and mechanical enclosures are linked between electrical and mechanical workflows. Features managed engineering change orders (ECO) process to submit design data changes from SolidWorks to PCBWorks using native SolidWorks files. Board assemblies from PCBWorks can also be opened in SolidWorks with included copper information for deeper analysis and simulation options.
Altium, www.pcbworks.com
Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack and Sigrity System Explorer increase signoff-level printed circuit board extraction accuracy. Parallel Computing 4-pack is a license that allows designers to run parallel computing tasks across four additional computers. System Explorer is an updated power-aware system signal integrity feature that features general purpose topology exploration, enabling power-aware signal integrity and transient power integrity analysis across multiple fabrics. Can enable LPDDR4 sign-off, along with licensing for distributed processing speed-up and multiple tool access. Power-aware system signal integrity feature now supports LPDDR4 analysis with full JEDEC compliance checking, including bit error rate analysis with high-capacity channel simulation for memory interface.
Cadence, www.cadence.com