DFM analysis
Analyze your design for critical design flaws that commonly lead to PCB fabrication and assembly delays. Perform basic analysis for acid traps, copper slivers, mask slivers, solder bridging, antennas, pin holes, thermal relief errors and other basic checks. Perform advanced analysis on intelligent design data to include plated or unplated holes, copper, blind and buried vias, back drills, flex and rigid-flex and a multitude of other analysis.
DFM analysis for rigid-flex designs
Analyze a rigid-flex design for trace fracture potential including trace corners, solid copper or trace width transitions in bend areas. Additionally, analyze for coverlay anomalies including missing exposures for button plating, coverlay minimum spacing and inter-layer dependencies.
Design analyzer
Use Design Analyzer to correlate PCB features such as trace width/spacing, number of layers, board size, and drill/via technologies to the capabilities of one or many preferred PCB fabricators. These guarantee submitted designs will be fabricated without hidden costs or unexpected delays. Send a Design Analyzer design report to a PCB fabricator to arrive at cost and delivery estimates for the fabricated PCB. Working collaboratively with the report in hand, PCB fabricators can make recommendations for design changes that may significantly reduce cost and fabrication time.
Netlist compare
Use the Netlist compare features to verify the integrity of design data extracted from the PCB CAD tool. Generate a CAM netlist derived from parsing the data in Valor CAM350 and compare it to an IPC-D-356 netlist exported from the source PCB CAD tool. This comparison ensures the design data was not compromised by the PCB CAD data extraction process.