As more designs incorporate high-speed technologies and involve integrated circuits (ICs) with rapidly increasing fast edge rates, the need for signal integrity analysis has become a vital part of the product development cycle.

As PCB designs become more sophisticated and the design cycles ever smaller, it is imperative that the PCB design can satisfy the global market place and the numerous product options.

SiliconExpert is today’s leading unified development and administrative support suite for semiconductor and mechanical parts management from design to end of life. With seamless integration, your company can leverage on time and accurate component data to improve the product life cycle from design to end of life.

Configurable controllers, sensors, the Internet of Things (IOT), and many other technologies demand careful power distribution. Problems can easily get missed – not just DC, but subtle issues that involve electromagnetic coupling.

IBIS-AMI models are much more sophisticated than standard IBIS models. They are needed to simulate advanced transceivers like those in DDR5 and PCI Express (PCIe) Generation 3 and beyond. These transceivers use Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques to condition signals for ultra-high bitrates.

You can plan and check signal integrity at any stage from schematic to PCB layout. Wherever you do that, the results are presented the same way and the look and feel are the same.

Design variation comes as standard in Advanced and Ultimate product bundles and is available as a cost option in others. It gives you a clean way to structure design variation from schematic entry through to physical design. Variations can include which components are fitted and even which parts are used.

Gerber data is still the de facto format for PCB fabrication. It describes artwork, including conductors, solder mask and drill data. PCB fabricators take it, tweak it, panelize with it and turn it into PCBs.

If someone external, or one of your colleagues, needs to check one of your schematics or PCBs – or you need to check theirs – it might not always be fair if they had to buy product licenses. That’s where the free Schematic Viewer and PCB Viewer come in.

When critical signal layout requires your full attention, you can mix your skill with as much or as little automation as you like, to create PCBs your own way.

PCB Editor, part of the eCADSTAR product, is a borderless electronic design environment. Has a part become obsolete? Then using the internet-connected platform, eCADSTAR Web Part Lookup allows you to rapidly search for an alternative and it will appear directly on your cursor with one click.

Schematic Editor, part of the eCADSTAR product, is an efficient and intuitive schematic capture application that may be used to define part connectivity, variation and design constraints for use in the eCADSTAR PCB Editor.

Connect to your preferred part vendor directly from within the eCADSTAR Library Editor application to lookup part information such as stock, pricing and datasheets. Download parts, symbols, footprints and 3D models and merge them to your library instantly with automated layer and attribute mapping.