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LCP printed circuit technology reportedly helps provide printed circuit boards with lines and spaces below 50µm and multi-Layer high density interconnect and signal integrity beyond 40GHz in all applications, including rigid and rigid flex PCBs.

HSIO Technologies, www.hsiotech.com

Library Expert Lite v. 2015.08 auto-generates footprints and 3D STEP models from component dimensions. Automates PCB library creation with 21 different CAD tool interfaces. Exports component lead terminals in a CAD library on a mechanical layer. 3D STEP model colors now definable in the Calculator and saved to FPX. Bill of materials search available quickly locates parts in a library. Contour courtyards. New XML viewer for unique component packages.

PCB Libraries, www.pcblibraries.com

PCBWorks PCB design tool is said to enhance workflow collaboration between electrical and mechanical designers. Includes collaboration tools to integrate design data with SolidWorks mechanical design software. Includes schematic capture and PCB layout tools along with an easy-to-use interface that works in tandem with existing mechanical workflows in SolidWorks. Design data between components and mechanical enclosures are linked between electrical and mechanical workflows. Features managed engineering change orders (ECO) process to submit design data changes from SolidWorks to PCBWorks using native SolidWorks files. Board assemblies from PCBWorks can also be opened in SolidWorks with included copper information for deeper analysis and simulation options.

Altium, www.pcbworks.com

Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack and Sigrity System Explorer increase signoff-level printed circuit board extraction accuracy. Parallel Computing 4-pack is a license that allows designers to run parallel computing tasks across four additional computers. System Explorer is an updated power-aware system signal integrity feature that features general purpose topology exploration, enabling power-aware signal integrity and transient power integrity analysis across multiple fabrics. Can enable LPDDR4 sign-off, along with licensing for distributed processing speed-up and multiple tool access. Power-aware system signal integrity feature now supports LPDDR4 analysis with full JEDEC compliance checking, including bit error rate analysis with high-capacity channel simulation for memory interface.

Cadence, www.cadence.com

Loftware Spectrum 2.5.2 enterprise labeling solution has unlimited label design capability. Features new cab and PCL 5c drivers for color printing; enhanced live data in design; new label image output options; added language support for global deployments, and Linux printer support. Cab driver enables support for the cab XC series two-color thermal printers and the A+ series, the EOS series, and Mach4 thermal printers. Can position fields and judge spatial relationships between objects on a label. New image device driver outputs label formats and saves image for validation or to email label images.

Loftware, www.loftware.com

UcamX CAM software suite handles data for rigid, flex and HDI printed circuit boards. Parallel Processing feature divides CPU-intensive tasks among several different CPUs to speed processing. New GUI offers specific and highly versatile workspaces for each discrete part of CAM workflow. “Dockable” dialogues can be placed where needed, or merged with the drawing area or other dialogues; handy pin bars manage larger dialogues; and drag-and-drop toolbars can be customized as needed. Several such workspaces can be stored, allowing switching quickly, safely and automatically between them depending on the job in hand and the CAM stage reached. Comes with a set of predefined workspaces but these can be reconfigured or created from scratch using the new Workspaces menu. Load Balanced Session capability allows multiple jobs to be opened simultaneously with full access to the extensive UcamX functionality and power. This can be used as needed, and made available to other operators on closing the session. Supports Gerber v.1, v.2 and X2.

Ucamco, www.ucamco.com