Altium and In-Circuit design to provide new extensions for Altium Designer

AUSTRALIA: Altium Ltd, in co-operation with Australian based In-Circuit Design Pty Ltd (ICD), announced the availability of new extensions for Altium Designer for advanced stackup planning and power distribution network analysis to bring comprehensive high-speed design capabilities to the mainstream market, at an affordable price.

With the increasing challenges concerning high-speed signals - not only because of high clock frequencies, but also because of faster edge rates - more and more PCB designers need to have analysis tools that allow them to successfully design with fewer iterations. The two new extensions for Altium Designer, the ICD Stackup Planner and ICD Power Distribution Network (PDN) Planner, are accessible from within the design tool to provide for seamless analysis.

"The ICD analysis software complements Altium Designer by empowering designers to accurately and confidently route complex, high-speed designs" said Barry Olney, MD and CEO of In-Circuit Design. "Altium opens up a broader market for our products and gives Altium Designer customers the tools they need for competitive advantage at a reasonable cost."

ICD provides a centralized, shared, impedance planning environment that connects materials, PDN analysis, stackup planning, signal integrity, PCB design and fabrication, consolidating the impedance control from schematic to fabrication.The impedance is planned pre-layout and flows through the design process to fabrication.