PCB DESIGN SOFTWARE FOR ENTERPRISE TEAMS
Xpedition
Designed to address the evolving challenges faced by electronics design organizations, the next generation of Xpedition helps you achieve shorter time-to-market, optimize resource management, foster multi-domain collaboration and prioritize IP and data security.
Introducing the next generation of Xpedition
Xpedition streamlines the process from concept to manufacture with integrated verification at every step. Watch this video to see how the next generation of Xpedition also delivers a modern, AI-infused user experience to improve productivity and speed time-to-market.
The next generation of Xpedition delivers:
Intuitive modern user experience
Xpedition leverages modern UI principles, creating an adaptive and agile PCB design environment that enhances user productivity and accelerates the design process.
AI-infused design support
Leveraging artificial intelligence, the next generation of Xpedition provides design support that boosts productivity, bridging capacity gaps within PCB design teams and enabling them to tackle complex challenges effectively.
Cloud-connected environment
Facilitating collaboration across the entire ecosystem, from PCB component design to manufacturing, Xpedition’s cloud-connected environment ensures seamless communication and coordination.
Integrated digital threads
Xpedition supports the digital transformation of electronics system design by integrating digital threads across multiple domains, providing a comprehensive view of the entire electronics design process.
Managed access within a secure environment
Recognizing the importance of compliance with commerce and government regulations, Xpedition offers managed access within a secure environment, ensuring the protection of sensitive information.
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PCB design best practices
Today, PCB design teams must deliver more complex products on even more compressed schedules. Get ahead of these challenges by learning the best practices of modern PCB design, which we have broken down by five pillars of digital transformation.
Establishing a digitally integrated solution across multiple domains reduces manual intervention, fosters collaboration and improves transparency across disciplines.
With a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment, all engineering teams, including IC, IC packaging, FPGA, and PCB design within electronics, as well as mechanical and software, can optimize the costs associated with a project, accelerate design time, manage data integrity and improve the quality of results. The best practices that can enable a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment include:
In general, the PCB design process is the same no matter the tool, the team, the company or the culture. The differentiator is the manner of execution, where engineering productivity and efficiency play a significant role. This enables you to:
- Predictably and reliably manage complex and high-capacity designs
- Utilize advanced interactive and automated design support to accelerate routine tasks
- Design correct-by-construction with a constraint-driven process
- Implement concurrent team design-driven cycle-time reduction
The best practices that can enable engineering productivity and efficiency include:
While product and design complexity increases, associated tools and process complexity are also rising. By integrating verification throughout PCB design – starting very early, long before physical prototypes – engineering teams can smooth the entire electronic systems design process and increase design quality through digital-prototype driven, shift-left verification and cross-domain modeling.
Shift-left verification in the design flow eliminates the specialist bottleneck using automated, integrated tools. Cost and time are saved by finding problems early, during design, minimizing design iterations and manufacturing respins. The best practices include:
From system requirements to implementation and manufacturing, a model-based systems engineering approach allows team members to view the entire system (electronic, electrical, mechanical and software) and model pieces, defining and optimizing interconnectivity and traceability from one domain to the other.
The best practices that can enable system-level model-based engineering include:
Electronic systems design companies have always depended on a value chain of suppliers and manufacturing services to bring successful products to market. Connecting the demand for a product with the supply of its necessary parts has never been more complex than it is today. The answer is to design for supply chain resilience.
The best practices that can enable supply chain resilience include:
- BOM validation
- Best-known part availability
- Validation of alternates