Printed Circuit Design & Fab Online Magazine - New Products

New Products

Design Gateway and Design Force – the core of CR-8000 2D/3D multi-PCB and IC packaging design software – have been enhanced with significant new placement and routing functionality for both conventional and high-speed designs, 3D mechanical enclosure clearance checking, and interfaces to third-party simulation tools.

Valor NPI software is said to provide a true PCB design-through-manufacturing solution by preparing and verifying final PCB product model definition and delivering that product model through the manufacturing process definition, factory floor tooling, and documentation creation stages.

Power IC Model Library version 4.1for the Cadence PSpice simulator has over 550 high-fidelity and correlated simulation models for power electronic designs.

XpeditionPCB layout platform, the first announced phase of the new Xpedition flow, addresses placement planning for performance and reuse; efficient routing of complex, dense topologies; and electromechanical optimization. Features Sketch Router, an auto-assisted routing process said to deliver hand-routed-quality indramatically less time.

TechniEtch 1688 organic acid-based copper microetch chemistry is for polymer coating. Reportedly improves yields of fine features with plating resists, etch resists or solder mask; handles conditions like HASL, ENIG, and immersion tin. Provides uniform copper surface appearance for AOI detection. Reportedly removes less copper off printed circuit board; holds more copper in etch solution.

Technic Inc., www.technic.com

Altium Vault 1.2 adds the ability to migrate data from one vault to another, and enhanced support for connecting to corporate enterprise systems, such as ERP and PLM. Can be hosted on an organization's own network infrastructure. Permits traceability and "where-used" Information through disciplined revisioning. Shortens design cycles through design reuse. Is said to reduce risk through smart supply chain intelligence during design time, not after where it is most costly. New Team Configuration Center (TC2) centralizes and standardizes design environment, from design tool setup and configuration to document templates and manufacturing file formats, which can be set up and automatically deployed to each engineer’s desktop.

Altium, www.altium.com