Xpedition Enterprise
Xpedition Enterprise is a powerful and innovative PCB design flow that offers a range of advanced features and capabilities to help designers create high-quality PCBs in less time, with improved efficiency and accuracy.
Whether you are working on a small project or a large-scale PCB design, Xpedition Enterprise can help you streamline your workflow and achieve better results.
Product release highlights for Xpedition 2409
The 2409 release of Xpedition brings AI capabilities and cloud connectivity. The user experience has been enhanced to provide an intuitive, adaptive and secure design process. This update represents Siemens' commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation in electronic systems design.
The release information and downloads can be found here
New modern user experience
Xpedition 2409 removes the barriers of design complexity by delivering an adaptive and agile user experience that lowers learning curves and enables the fastest time-to-productivity. By prioritizing ease-of-use and unified UX, engineers can work more efficiently, accelerate results and increase their satisfaction.
Mastering complexity leveraging digital threads
The rapid advancement of technology and its integration into various industries, particularly the electronics sector, has led to a significant increase in complexity. Digital threads offer a seamless framework for data flow throughout a product’s lifecycle, from ideation to utilization, fostering collaboration and informed decision-making. They intersect various domains, ensuring information consistency and accessibility.
This paper examines the concept of digital threads as a means of managing this complexity in electronic systems design and manufacturing, highlighting five integral threads: architecture, component, design data, verification, and manufacturing. Adopting digital threads becomes imperative for those seeking to navigate and thrive amidst the intricate landscape of electronic systems design and manufacturing.
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Today, PCB design teams must deliver more complex products on even more compressed schedules. Get ahead of these challenges by learning the best practices of modern PCB design, which we have broken down into the five pillars of digital transformation.
Establishing a digitally integrated solution across multiple domains reduces manual intervention, fosters collaboration, and improves transparency across disciplines.
With a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment, all engineering teams, including IC, IC packaging, FPGA, and PCB design within electronics, as well as mechanical and software, can optimize the costs associated with a project, accelerate design time, manage data integrity, and improve the quality of results. The best practices that can enable a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment include:
In general, the PCB design process is the same no matter the tool, the team, the company, or the culture. The differentiator is the manner of execution, where engineering productivity & efficiency play a significant role. This enables you to:
The best practices that can enable engineering productivity and efficiency include:
While product and design complexity increases, associated tools and process complexity are also rising. By integrating verification throughout PCB design - starting very early, long before physical prototypes - engineering teams can smooth the entire electronic systems design process and increase design quality through digital-prototype driven, shift-left verification and cross-domain modeling.
Shift-left verification in the design flow eliminates the specialist bottleneck by using automated, integrated tools. Cost and time are saved by finding problems early, during design, minimizing design iterations, and manufacturing respins.
The best practices that can enable digital-prototype-driven verification include a shift-left approach to:
From system requirements to implementation and manufacturing, a model-based systems engineering approach allows team members to view the entire system (electronic, electrical, mechanical, and software) and model pieces of that system, defining and optimizing interconnectivity and traceability from one domain to the other.
The best practices that can enable system-level model-based engineering include:
Electronic systems design companies have always depended on a value chain of suppliers and manufacturing services to bring successful products to market. Connecting the demand for a product with the supply of its necessary parts has never been more complex than it is today. The answer is to design for supply chain resilience.
The best practices that can enable supply chain resilience include:
Leveraging 3D layout to optimize PCB systems designs
Visualize and validate PCB designs as if they were already manufactured. With Xpedition, designers and engineers can easily understand the physical product, enabling identification of electro-mechanical problems early in the design cycle and avoiding costly re-designs. A photorealistic view of all board elements also helps with flex design challenges. This paper describes six ways to maximize the benefits of 3D technology.
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The Xpedition Enterprise advantage
Xpedition Enterprise is a comprehensive PCB design flow that offers a range of innovative technologies and features to streamline the entire design process from system design definition to manufacturing execution. The platform provides a robust set of tools and capabilities to help designers create high-quality PCBs in less time, with improved efficiency and accuracy.
One of the key benefits of Xpedition Enterprise is its ability to significantly reduce design cycles. By providing a range of automated features and powerful tools, the platform can help designers complete their work much faster, without sacrificing quality or accuracy. This can lead to significant time savings and improved resource efficiency, making it a valuable tool for any PCB designer.
In addition to its speed and efficiency, Xpedition Enterprise also offers a range of advanced features and technologies to help designers create high-quality PCBs. This includes advanced routing and layout tools, signal and power integrity analysis, and real-time collaboration and communication features that allow designers to work together more effectively.
Overall, Xpedition Enterprise is a powerful and innovative PCB design flow that offers a range of advanced features and capabilities to help designers create high-quality PCBs in less time, with improved efficiency and accuracy. Whether you are working on a small project or a large-scale PCB design, Xpedition Enterprise can help you streamline your workflow and achieve better results.
Tour Xpedition Enterprise in 7 minutes
In this video, you will learn about how Xpedition Enterprise works in seven minutes. Xpedition Enterprise is the industry’s most innovative PCB design collaboration platform, providing integration from system design definition to manufacturing execution.
Areas discussed in this video:
Deliving integration, collaboration and co-design systems between IC packaging, multi-board, RF, harness, FPGA & MCAD to ensure the flexibility and intuitive technologies you need.
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Support for multi-user & multi-site and flow-based concurrent engineering throughout development process, dramatically reducing design cycles and improving product quality.
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Xpedition combines easy-of-use with highly automated functionality to offer PCB designers industry-leading advanced technologies to create today's most complex designs.
Read moreComplexity Management
Manage increasing systems complexity while optimizing individual and organizational productivity
Collaboration
Enable collaboration across teams, disciplines, and the supply chain
Reliability and Quality
Virtually prototype systems during the design stage to mitigate costs and liability
Intellectual Property Management
Institutionalize best practices and design reuse
