CAM350XL

Multi-Level Analysis for First Time Fabrication Success

Today’s designs are very complex and require more sophisticated methods of analysis and a little more time to conduct this analysis.  We once could get away with simple visual inspections on our designs, when boards were not so multifaceted. But the demands on our intricate boards today require much more analysis to become successful; such as Netlist comparisons, design compare, DRC, and Design for Fabrication analysis to ensure that errors during translation from layout to Gerber are caught before bare board fabrication.

The pyramid below highlights the different analysis options, along with the time they take to perform, and the precision of each task.  The broader your analysis process the better chance of successful PCBs, manufacturing, and end products.

CAM350XL supports multiple levels of analysis from cursory visual inspection of design/Gerber/ODB++ data, to Netlist comparison of outputs against original design data, to full blown Design for Fabrication analysis. The latter two verification processes can be combined into an analysis “Stream” (see Streams Rule Checking for further details), and saved away and re-used in subsequent revisions or other designs.  Multilevel analysis reduces risk of board scrap and design manipulation during fabrication.

Shorts from Merged Text Crossprobe back to the CAD system for fast resolution in PCB layout systems	Open Circuit Fast comparison of nets extracted from Gerber files to original Netlist in the CAD system
Shorted Plane Connection Can be set as a standard, automatic step in the verification process of all designs	Crossprobing Cross probes back to the host CAD tool for correction at the data source

 

CAM350XL Analysis, Streams, DFF, Crossprobing, and Design Compare

• Quickly locate defects that could result in PCB scrap:
  • Starved thermals
  • Acid traps/slivers
  • Missing traces
  • Incorrect drilling
  • Shorts resulting from layer merge
     
• Compare two design revisions to identify ECO changes
   
• Create and store checking routines for re-use on other designs
   
• Define areas to run different analysis such as BGA areas on a standard board
   
• Validate the results with charting and crossprobing
   
• Annotate errors for sharing of information in a design group
   
• Blind and Buried Via Support:
  • Supports multiple drill layers for correct extraction of Netlists
  • Allows complex designs to be compared against an IPC-D-356A Netlist
  • Simplifies setup in StreamsRC: automatically determines Gerber layer sets to determine which drills go through which layers; eliminates false errors
  • Set automatically when intelligent data such as ODB++ is imported

Blind and Buried Via Support