ACDi’s team of skilled PCB designers provides excellent quality with rapid turnaround, whatever your design may be. We use industry leading design tools incorporating the latest technology, which in turn allows us to create excellent designs with a quick turnaround. In addition, our manufacturing and PCB design services teams work closely together to ensure that your design is built for manufacture.
PCB Design Experience
Our team of designers has nearly a century of combined experience on every kind of board, from small two layer boards to high speed, multi-layer designs, and everything in between.
PCB Design Strengths
- High frequency, RF designs
- High speed digital designs
- Multiple layers – up to 26+
- Low EMI designs for sensitive applications
- Stacked, blind, and buried vias
- Power supply
- DDR2 and DDR3 memory
- Analog designs
- PCIe, USB 2.0 & 3.0, LVDS
DFM/DFT/DFA
ACDi uses the Valor software tool from Mentor Graphics. Using Valor, we are able to verify database connectivity and continuity, ensuring that our delivered database matches the customer’s netlist input. We also use Valor to run DFM (design for manufacturing) checks based on design rules from leading board houses. This reduces setup and turns time on bare board fabrication, and also eliminates work stoppages.
We also run DFA (design for assembly) checks using Valor. These checks verify that your designs meet our manufacturing guidelines and tolerances, leading to a quicker and smoother assembly process.
Real examples of boards designed by ACDi:
- 100 Gb/s optic transponder
- Multi-band first responder radio
- Fighter aircraft T/R modules
- 10-30 layer ceramic substrates
- Cable TV systems
- Dense XFP modules
- GPS modules
- Wi-Fi modules
- Bluetooth systems
- Robotic control systems
- Network controllers
Software Tools
Our designers utilize industry standard professional PCB design software, including:
Mentor Graphics
- Expedition 7.9.4
- PADS Power PCB 9.5
- PADS PowerLogic Schematic Capture
- PADS BlazeRouter
- DX Designer
Cadence
- Allegro Expert 16.6
- Concept HDL Schematic Capture
- OrCAD Schematic Capture
- SPECCTRA Autorouter
Altium
- Altium Designer 14.3
- Altium Schematic Capture
Eagle
- 6.5.0 Professional
Stackup Builder
- Polar Si 8000
- Polar Speedstack 2014
Viewer Downloads
Download these free PCB viewer programs to visualize your design: