ICD Stackup Planner  1n-Circuit Design specializes in high speed multilayer PCB Design including design for Signal Integrity and EMC.

The new ICD Stackup Planner builds on the familiar ease of use of the popular In-Circuit Design online Impedance Calculator that has been utilized by tens of thousands of PCB Designers and Engineers world wide since 1996. This new release is based on your ideas and feedback. You wanted:

 Impedance, differential impedance, broadside coupled differential impedance, microstrip, stripline, Signal Integrity, Crosstalk and EMC

·         Flexibility of structure

·         Greater accuracy

·         Additional sample stackups

·         Broadside coupled differential impedance

·         Dielectric Materials Library

  Impedance, differential impedance, broadside coupled differential impedance, microstrip, stripline, Signal Integrity, Crosstalk and EMC

The user may now add and delete an unlimited number of signal, plane and dielectric layers, drag and drop multiple layers, to rearrange the stackup, and instantly re-calculate the entire multilayer stackup simultaneously to solve parameters for the desired impedance.

Also, a new user defined Dielectric Materials Library is incorporated to further improve the accuracy by allowing the creation of realistic multilayer stackups using the same core, prepreg and soldermask materials stocked by the PCB Fabricator so, what you calculate is what you get. The Dielectric Library Editor comes with a sample library of commonly used core, prepreg and soldermask materials and also the Generic Defaults for adding layers to the stackup can be edited. 

Real time Design Rule Checking error prompts (in RED) guide the user through the stackup building process to ensure the stackup is manufactureable.  Impedance, differential impedance, broadside coupled differential impedance, microstrip, stripline, Signal Integrity, Crosstalk and EMC

The ICD Stackup Planner supports: 

• Microstrip

• Embedded Microstrip (Soldermask coating)

• Balanced Symmetric Stripline

• Unbalanced Asymmetric Stripline

• Characteristic Impedance

• Edge Coupled Differential Impedance

• Broadside Coupled Differential Impedance

• User Defined Dielectric Materials Library

• Unlimited Layers

• Eight default stackup configurations

• Drag & Drop multiple layers to re-order and instantly re-calculate

• Swap Rows

• Change all values in one column

• Imperial/Metric conversion

• Total board thickness calculation (copper to copper)

• Export CSV

• Real time Design Rule Checking

• Copy to Clipboard - manufacturing documentation of core, prepreg and foil construction

• Maximum of one Microstrip layer (top and bottom) and two Stripline layers (between planes)

 What our customers say:

The design of reliable multilayer PCB’s becomes more critical as signal edge rates increase in speed. Traces interconnecting digital devices form transmission lines that are a vital part of the circuit design. Determining the trace impedance allows for the correct termination of the transmission lines. Boards designed with this in mind will demonstrate superior signal integrity and lower electromagnetic emissions.

The ICD Stackup Planner is an easy to use, affordable tool that provides a clear representation of the PCB stackup and interactively calculates characteristic and differential impedance with adequate precision.

When the impedance is critical, the accuracy becomes limited by the PCB fabricator’s process tolerances and the material characteristics.  However, the ICD Stackup Planner provides a ready reference to a wide range of PCB materials, used by most fabricators, and allows the user to add their own material library entries.

This tool is essential for both engineering design teams and PCB fabricators and I highly recommend it.

R. D. Jeffery PhD

June 2010.

The ICD Stackup Planner is reduced to just USD275.00

for a limited time only

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