PCB Design by PLTc

'Powerful feature' into PADS Professional

PADS Professional has a "powerful feature." Learn more which feature that is for PCB engineer Wim Creyghton of PLTc. Wim is an experienced engineer who has been in the business for years. He has extensive experience with PCB design and the software in this market. Why he chooses for PADS Professional?

The Situation

PLTc makes PCB designs for all kinds of customers which make use of Altium, CADStar, OrCAD, Eagle and KiCAD. When you serve so many different customers, having an open Front-End< >Back-End structure is obviously very important. PLTc has several customers in different markets like automotive, medical and industrial automation. Basically, anything that has electronics in it.

For example, the latest thing Wim designed is a PCB for a modem that supports nurse alarm systems.

The solution

Wim is an experienced engineer who has been in the business for years. "We did also look at Altium Designer for example but because of the closed system (Front-End< >Back-End), we still decided to go for PADS Professional from Siemens. It's a cheaper version of Xpedition, but with the same powerful Xpedition functions, and just as good for PLTc. Also you can easily transfer components from Xpedition to PADS Professional due to the same library of Siemens".

Major advantages Wim mentions the 'open Front-End< >Back-End of Siemens' but also the schematics of other PCB design software are 'easy to load' into PADS Professional. "You can even start at Layout level with a keyin netlist and you don't have to explicitly create the schematic yourself". Wim considers this as a "powerful feature" of this design software for electronics.

Powerful feature

"You can even start at Layout level with a keyin netlist and you don't have to explicitly create the schematic yourself"

Wim Creyghton PLTc

About PLTc

PLTc stands for Print - Layout - Techniek BV and is a design and consultancy firm with a very complete range of services in the field of printed circuit boards (pcb) and flex/flex-rigid PCBs, all for professional electronics. Whether it is a perfect layout of a new design, redesign of an existing PCB and/or circuit, PCB supplies, component procurement for existing or new projects, at PLTc one is assured of customization.

Meanwhile, PLTc is part of Axtron with which they can offer assembly (mounting pcb), procurement of PCBs and circuit boards in addition to design and schematics.

Why InnoFour?

Wim states that the advantage of InnoFour is that with a local distributor (of Siemens electronic design software) you get good help. "It is always easier to work with questions and consultations. Laury and Bas are also technical specialists who can (re)write the scripts of the software."

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