40 The PCB Design Magazine • July 2014
• ICD's bi-directional Altium Designer inter-
face allows early detection of stackup and PDN
issues.
• The efficiency of the PCB design process
can be improved by simulation, design reuse,
co-design and virtual prototyping.
• Pre-layout analysis allows a designer to
identify and eliminate issues early in the design
process.
• Design reuse will save time and ensure re-
peatability of design: a proven, tested, working
solution to just drop into place.
• Team collaboration can result in extreme
reductions in design time with a typical 13 week
complex design being reduced to five weeks.
• Virtual prototyping ensures that your
product fits together every time by using 3D
DRC interference checking at the PCB design
level.
PCBDESIgN
References
1. Barry Olney: Beyond Design: Pre-Layout
Simulation, Intro to Board-Level Simulation
and the PCB Design Process, and Power Distri-
bution Network Planning
2. Altium Documentation: Collaborative
PCB Design
3. Wikipedia: Business Process Improvement
Randall Myers, Mentor Graphics: Concurrent
Design One Team One Virtual Location
4. Concurrent Engineering: What is Concur-
rent Engineering
5. The ICD Stackup Planner and PDN Plan-
ner are distributed globally by Altium
realtimewith.com
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Barry Olney is managing
director of in-Circuit Design
Pty ltd (iCD), Australia. This
PCB design service bureau
specializes in board-level
simulation, and has developed
the iCD stackup Planner and
iCD PDn Planner software. To read past
columns, or to contact Olney, click here.
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