Altium's enhances its high speed PCB design using ICD tech

Altium by using tech from In-Circuit Design Pty Ltd is offering advanced stackup planning and power distribution network analysis in its PCB design tool. Some of the key benefits of ICD Stackup Planner as per Altium: Unprecedented simulation speed, ease of use and accuracy at an affordable price. Accurate impedance control for rigid-flex design flows seamlessly, in the Altium environment, from concept to fabrication. The 8,800 part dielectric materials library allows the simulation of the actual materials used by your fabricator. Unique field solver computation of multiple differential pair definitions per layer. Automatic creation of high-speed design rules in Altium Designer. ICD PDN Planner A typical high-speed, multilayer PCB has five or six individual power supplies that all serve a different purpose, and must be regulated to maintain power integrity during high current switching up to the maximum frequency. With a frequency range up to 100 GHz, the ICD PDN Planner analyzes the AC impedance of each on-board PDN, including capacitor selection, to ensure a broad spectrum of noise reduction, giving a concise graphical view of the entire network including plane resonance peaks. Some of the key benefits of the ICD PDN Planner as per Altium: Unprecedented simulation speed, ease of use and accuracy at an affordable price. Accurate PDN managem...