Top 5 Reasons to Try the New Xpedition Standard for PCB Design

What makes engineers designing electronic boards choose one or another development toolset? Was there a choice of the first EDA solution at all? Not necessarily. The very first tool you probably use till now, at least occasionally, was simply available at your university or at your first workplace. And if we agree that having a habit of using such a familiar and homelike application must not be the only decisive factor, what key factors should we look at? There is no universal answer to that question either, because the ways engineers use their tools are not the same. But I have looked at the new Xpedition Standard and found 5 main reasons to try this new solution released by Siemens EDA.

1. New adaptive & sleek interface

The new adaptive user interface of Siemens EDA tools was introduced with the 2409 release a few months ago, but it was only available in the top-tier Xpedition Enterprise solutions. Xpedition Standard is now also upgraded with this adaptive skin, fully configurable and customizable, precisely predicting your next action and thus optimizing your design process. No other professional tool on the market offers such an enriched user experience. Worth trying.

2. Complete ecosystem of tools around

Data migration between various proprietary formats of 3rd-party tools is still problematic, sometimes disastrous. Annotation does not work, library parts suddenly miss thermal pads, design constraints are a mess, and component heights get completely lost in 3D. Isn’t this a typical result of an export-import operation? 

Obviously, staying in one advanced ecosystem of solutions, like the one available around Xpedition Standard, is a working solution. It opens the possibilities for early electromagnetic simulations (HyperLynx products), easy MCAD integration with great 3D visualization (NX products), as well as supply chain control (PartQuest), pre-production DFM/DFA validation (Valor) and more. With no cross-format issues and no data losses.

3. Fast and simple software configuration without FlexLM

The Siemens EDA team carefully listened to many voices saying that configuring the license with FlexLM is not easy, especially compared to competitors. When the corporate network is configured with specific tight requirements and there are a bunch of other licenses using the same licensing software, conflicts are a reality. As a distributor of Siemens EDA, we’ve seen these situations, of course. But now it is over. Now, finally, Xpedition Standard is indeed easy to install and configure.

4. Enclosed enterprise capabilities for growth

Xpedition Standard has core Xpedition technology as a basis of the application. It brings the performance of an enterprise-level solution. Take in R&D a simple or high-end PCB, multi-domain system, include more engineers in the team, and explore cloud capabilities and AI-powered automation. Configure hierarchical design and constraints, switch to 3D to validate mechanical requirements. And you will be able to deliver a solution of any level!

5. Added flexibility through extension

Signal integrity and power integrity analysis are becoming very important even when the design contains barely exotic interfaces, think of Ethernet, USB, HDMI. DFM validation saves so much time at the prototyping stage. And if you may actually need to use some analysis and verification tools only occasionally, having all of them might be a real financial burden. 

Here Siemens EDA offers a solution called “Value Based Licensing”. In simple words, there are so-called token packages purchasable in addition to Xpedition Standard and available for the whole engineering crew linked to a company account. Tokens allow starting HyperLynx SI or PI, PCBFlow or Flex-Rigid software modules upon request, so that from now on a growing engineering team won’t have to buy it all at once.

Free trial opportunity

These 5 pillars of the new Xpedition Standard are just a small part of the released functional novelties. More details are available at the dedicated product webpage, and through the related documents from suppliers. And with the 30-days free trial you may try it yourself and decide if you are open and ready to make the next step. Just reach out to the sales & engineering team of Sintecs and we’ll help you with the kick-off.