Abaco Systems won the Siemens Xcelerator Technology Innovation Award for best overall PCB design in 2023. Watch this video to learn how the integrated Siemens toolset set them up for success and helped them bring the HPC2812 to market.
The HPC2812 was developed during a time of a pandemic. “That was a testament to our agility in that we could bring a product to market at a time of not necessarily working together in the same location, by utilizing engineering resources around the world,” said Mike Underwood, Division Vice President and Business Unit Manager, Abaco Systems. “And that’s a unique ability that provides us an advantage in time to market.”
“The number of constraints in the HPC2812 design specifically was huge,” said Mike Tapp, PCB Designer, Abaco Systems.
The engineering team used design constraint templates within Xpedition, so they could generate them once, make a template out of that, and then apply that template to all the memory interfaces. This saved them significant time in the design process.
Another time saver was informal design reuse with Xpedition. “Being able to copy large chunks of circuitry, placements, routing, planes—the whole lot—and place that down was very, very useful,” said Tapp. “The HPC2812 has eight memory interfaces, so being able to do one interface, copy it, place it down and then just tweak things where it doesn’t quite fit saved an enormous amount of time.”
Learn more about how Abaco used the integrated Siemens toolset to achieve success here.