Altair® PollEx™ is a comprehensive PCB design and verification solution that accelerates electronic systems development from design to manufacturing. By seamlessly integrating with all major ECAD tools, PollEx enables efficient collaboration across disciplines, ensuring projects meet targets for timing, performance, reliability, compliance, and manufacturing yield. It offers a unified environment for PCB design review, analysis, and verification, facilitating the development of smart, connected, and tightly packaged electronic products.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Seamless ECAD Integration: PollEx provides unmatched connectivity to all major ECAD systems, including Altium, Cadence, Siemens EDA , Zuken, and more, facilitating efficient data exchange and collaboration.
- Comprehensive PCB Verification: The solution offers rule-based checks for Design for Manufacturing , Design for Assembly , and Design for Electrical to ensure design quality and manufacturability.
- Advanced Analysis Tools: PollEx provides analysis capabilities for signal integrity, power integrity, electromagnetic interference vulnerability, and electrostatic discharge protection, enabling early detection and resolution of potential issues.
- Unified Part Library: It maintains physical, logical, thermal, electrical, and assembly attribute data in one place, enhancing collaboration throughout the product development process.
- Early Design Simulation: PollEx offers checks for signal integrity, power integrity, EMI vulnerability, and ESD protection, verifying return path routing, balanced differential pairs, and other critical design aspects.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
PollEx addresses the challenges of developing complex electronic products by providing a unified platform that integrates seamlessly with existing toolchains, enabling early detection of design issues, and facilitating collaboration across disciplines. By offering comprehensive verification and analysis tools, PollEx helps organizations reduce development cycles, minimize redesigns, and bring high-quality electronic products to market faster.