Unlike low-end CAM tools that lack functionality to handle today’s complex
designs or high-end tools that are extremely expensive to own and maintain,
CAM350 has long been the price/performance leader in delivering powerful
fabrication software solutions to both the design and fabrication industries.
With CAM350, PCB designers and CAM Engineers are more productive
than ever. With a radically new Graphic User Interface (GUI), performance speed
and quality improvements, and powerful new usability and productivity functions,
CAM350 delivers a highly effective solution to meet today’s design and
fabrication challenges. CAM350 allows jobs to be processed easily, quickly, and
accurately.
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Users spoke, and we listened. Originally not in Release 8 but asked for during early design reviews, Downstream listened and
incorporated a robust graphical interface with all the tools you would expect from a modern software solution: customizable and dockable toolbars,
standard and user created icons, enhanced mouse support, just to name a few.
You can now create toolbars made of your most common used commands, and dock them to any part of the screen. Pop up messages no
longer are used for feedback, a dedicated area that you can scroll through, save, or not view at all has been created for feedback. A shortcut
bar is also provided allowing you to jump back and forth, with one mouse click, between various editors. Zooming is now controlled by the scroll
button on the mouse, no longer do you need to learn esoteric commands to pan around the screen.
All of these GUI features have a common theme, ease-of-use. With ease of use, comes speed. Speed not speed for the
existing user, but also when training new ones!
- Robust, easy-to-use, graphical interface
- New customizable and dockable toolbars
- Standard and user created icons and hot buttons
- Hypertext oriented command log window
- New scroll bars, zoon in and out, and pan around functions
- Short-cut toolbar for navigation
- Enhanced mouse support
Graphical Netlist Compare
Netlist compare has become the key verification process in the handoff from Design to Fabrication. We have enhanced
our comparison process to allow the user to view errors graphically. When a difference is detected between the incoming netlist and
the existing one, a toolbar is available that will zoom into the error so that the user can graphically identify the problem quickly,
without having to wade through pages of reports.
- Enhanced, superior, comparison process
- Compares CAM outputs against original engineering intent
- Minimizes potential electrical defects
- Graphically highlights discrepancies
- Automatic "Go-To-Error" screen display of violations
- Sorting and prioritization of errors - size, type, location, etc.
- Considerably reduces verification time
Negative Plane Analysis
Potential connectivity errors such as isolated thermals can now be caught even if the area is not isolated in the
design. Most tools can catch an isolated thermal when it is completely cleared from the copper, but how about the case where an
isolation may happen in the manufacturer’s etching process? Now CAM350 catches this by simulating the etch process, along with using
intelligent netlisting, to find isolations that other CAM tools miss.
- Easily identify potential connectivity errors
- Detects defects on internal power and ground planes
- Identifies any thermal isolation occurring in manufacturing
- Simulates the etching process, using intelligent netlist
- Minimizes electrical defects due to power/ground openings
Error Verification
CAM350 features an analysis report that are both logical and linked to a graphical display. Users can view
multiple errors, or sort errors by feature type, feature size, error size, and many other fields. This allows the user to quickly
verify the results of any DRC or Analysis function.
- Validate errors quickly and accurately
- Sort able reports linked to graphical display
- View multiple errors, sort by error type, size, features, etc.
- Quickly run and verify analysis results
