PCB Layout Software
The top-of-the-range solution for the entire PCB Design flow
Xpedition PCB Layout software is a common, integrated environment that eliminates data loss when jumping between tools to complete your job.
Xpedition PCB Layout software combines ease-of-use with highly automated functionality to offer PCB layout designers industry-leading advanced technologies to create today’s most complex designs.
Designers and engineers can collaborate and easily manage electrical and manufacturing rules from a common database within a single environment for design, placement, and routing.
Single, Integrated Editing Environment
Xpedition PCB layout software is a key part of the Siemens Ecosystem of solutions for electronics. It reduces total design time and increases productivity with a single environment that can be personalized to the way you design.
Design Reuse
Design Reuse
Design reuse in Xpedition PCB layout software automates the process of copying circuits to reduce the overall PCB design cycle time while improving quality by using known-good IP. Integrated copy-circuit functionality allows circuits to be copied and pasted within and between designs with advanced equivalency algorithms to automatically map the schematic logic to the circuit during the copy process. In addition, the use of group planning and placement makes design reuse even more powerful. A formal design reuse module creates and stores reusable blocks of circuitry — including schematic and PCB placement and routing data — in a central library. This IP can be shared across the enterprise and can be placed and modified within the same design and across multiple designs.
Design Collaboration
Design Collaboration
Engineering design changes can cause delays and introduce errors. Design collaboration in Xpedition PCB layout software eliminates the barriers of restricting changes within a schematic/layout flow. Whether a single schematic designer or multiple schematic designers collaborating, Xpedition supports concurrent constraint and logic changes while the layout is in progress, synchronizing the schematic and layout with powerful integration features. Changes made to the schematic and/or layout are easily updated into a common database without interrupting the design cycle. PCB designers also have access to an embedded schematic view within the layout tool.
Concurrent Team Design
Concurrent Team Design
Award-winning Xpedition team layout, powered by Xtreme technology, allows multiple designers to work simultaneously within a single PCB layout design database. For PCB designs that have aggressive schedules, concurrent layout enables collaboration across geographically dispersed or functionally organized PCB design groups to maximize productivity and dramatically shorten design time to market. It is designed for immediate deployment and is as fully functional as its single-user counterpart. Time-consuming training is not needed, or changes to a company’s infrastructure or library to implement. Refer to the Xpedition xPCB Team Layout datasheet for complete details.
Advanced Packaging
Advanced Packaging
Typically, die-level packaging design is done in a separate tool, but with Xpedition, embedding die-level packaging into your layout using wire bonding technology is available within the same integrated database. Advanced constraint definitions for cavity design, chip-on-board, and multi- and stacked-dies are maintained in the integrated constraint manager. Ease-of-use wizards are provided to create advanced die bond patterns, and wire bonds can be validated for DRC errors using 3D visualization.
Embedded Passive/Active Design
Embedded Passive/Active Design
Xpedition PCB layout software automates layout creation with embedded passive/actives that used to take weeks of manual effort. As ICs and FPGAs increase in speed and density, they require more passive components (resistors and capacitors) — some may need several hundred. Implementing these as embedded components versus discrete SMDs can significantly reduce board sizes and improve performance. A complete embedded solution is provided: trade-off tools decide which components can be implemented as embedded based on board size and cost, passive material choices, automatic synthesis driven by material supplier’s libraries, and full manufacturing data generation. Embedded active components can also be utilized in your most advanced designs.
Find out more about PCB Design with Xpedition Enterprise
Find out more about PCB Layout software
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