Xpedition Enterprise

What’s New in Xpedition-VX. 2.11

The latest releases of Xpedition address the increasing complexity of today’s advanced electronics system designs through an emphasis on both ease-of-use and team productivity.

Highlights in the Latest Release

The latest Xpedition VX.2.11 release brings improvements to multi-board electronics system design, component review, interactive routing, and MCAD integration. Productivity-enhancing design aids are available across the flow.

Xpedition Layout

Multi-Board System Design

Xpedition's new multi-board system design features enable users to validate multi-board connectors in a 3D physical system design, collaborate with other designers and propose changes to the system design and provide 3D design rule checks to very violations in both the PCB and overall system design.

Multi-board netlines

Multi-Board Design

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Multi-board netlines

(1 min, 25 secs)

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Layout assembly collaboration

(3 mins, 37 secs)

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Assembly 3D clearances

(2 mins, 55 secs)

Xpedition Layout

Design Capture

Xpedition's design capture new enhancements include detail view that lookups part data from schematic in EDM Collaborate; and trace connection that is adjustable limits to trace connection depth to improve performance on large nets.

Detail view

Design Capture

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Detail view

(35 secs)

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Trace connection

(50 secs)

Xpedition Layout

Layout

Xpedition's layout new features allow users to design more complex via stitching patterns, enable interactive route groups of traces containing hangers, add curved trace corners to trace lines, and create external file with fiducial and mounting hole information.

Via stitching

Layout

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Via stitching

(1 min, 36 secs)

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Multi-plow with shields

(1 min, 49 secs)

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Curved trace corners

(54 secs)

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Fiducial copper for MCAD

(1 min, 1 sec)

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Incremental soldermask in MCAD

(49 secs)

Download the Release

Note: The following is a condensed summary of the release highlights. Siemens customers should refer to the Release Highlights on Support Center for detailed information regarding all new features and enhancements.