We’re very happy with the clear feedback and technical advice about high-speed PCB design offered by our dedicated beta users over the last 12 months,” says Jason Hingston, CTO, Altium, in a press statement. “Altium’s R&D engagement with customers is reflected in this software release. Material specifications as well as fabrication notes, tolerances and other critical standards-compliance information are also now communicated with these standards. Data description include such characteristics as copper layer images plated and unplated holes, slots, routes, grooves and microvias PCB design outline and cutout regions complex layer stack regions and rigid and flexible board areas. Both specifications describe a PCB according to its design. The users can keep up to date and have choices that broaden their selection of PCB fabrication partners. The added support for the IPC-2581 and the Gerber X2 standards helps resolves issues of ambiguous or missing data with older formats. Live linking to the original file is supported. New OLE object support in PCB documents in Altium Designer 15 lets users place Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Word documents directly into their PCB design. Users instead will be able to plan and route groups of high-speed nets with much greater efficiency and accuracy, according to Altium. Altium says that this feature eliminates the need for external applications as well as the need to maintain complex lists of signals and nets. The Pin Pairs feature provides users accurate length and phase tuning across termination components as well as length, phase and delay tuning for entire signal paths. Typically, the traditional process required manual rework and signal planning outside of the design tool, such as with a spreadsheet program, This, says Altium, exposed designers to numerous, time-consuming extra steps and many opportunities for human error. The addition of the Pin Pairs feature addresses the challenges earlier generations of software have with designs requiring signal propagation at rates up to 100 GB/s. In version 15, Altium Designer introduces a new Pin Pairs feature for high-speed signal pin pairs, new support for Ucamco’s Gerber X2 CAD-to-CAM data transfer standard as well as support for the new IPC-2581 vendor-neutral format for PCB design data transfer developed by the International Printed Circuit Association. Altium Designer 15 has been enhanced with support for rectangular pad holes.
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