NEW - The Ultimate PCB Material Reference Library
Introductory Offer - 50% Off!
In-Circuit Design Pty Ltd is proud to
launch the new
iCD Dielectric Materials Library
- a standalone tool featuring
over 1,400 dielectric material types
from 84 manufacturers, supporting frequencies up to 100GHz.
Whether you're designing rigid or flex
stackups with core, prepreg, or solder
mask/coverlay, this is the most comprehensive library ever
compiled.
Designed for all
EDA tool users, PCB fabricators, and Engineers
working with Stackup
Field Solvers, this
independent, standalone resource is a game-changer for anyone serious
about precision and performance in high-speed, high-frequency PCB
design.
Save time, avoid
guesswork, and design with confidence.
Get your copy now and bring precision to
your next project.
iCD Products
iCD Stackup Planner
Controlled Impedance Planner - Offers Engineers and PCB Designers unprecedented simulation speed, ease of use and accuracy at an affordable price.
iCD PDN Planner
AC Impedance and Decoupling Planner - Analyze multiple power supplies to maintain low impedance over the entire frequency range dramatically improving product performance.
iCD CPW Planner
Coplanar Waveguide Planner - Model microstrip Coplanar Waveguides to reduce radiation loss, of high-speed serial links, significantly improving product performance.
High-Speed Design Features
HDI Via Span Definition
The Via Span Definition dialog allows the user to insert PTH, Blind or Buried Microvias that span two or more internal layers.iCD Termination Planner
Extracts IV curves from IBIS models. Calculates the required series terminator of the distributed system including loads.Matched Delay Optimization
Relative signal layer propagation. Ideal for DDRx trace delay matching.Electromagnetic Radiation
The Electromagnetic Emissions (EMI) plot represents the projected maximum radiated noise if a high-speed signal excites the plane resonance at a particular frequency.Mirror Stackup
Stackup Mirroring allows the user to cut data entry time in half. Create the top half of a symmetric stackup, right click on the stackup, and select "Mirror Stackup".Multiple Differential Pairs
Insert multiple Differential Pair definitions per layer. This is the first Impedance Calculator/Stackup Planner that allows the user to setup as many different impedances as you like on the one layer or every layer of the stackup.Coplanar Waveguide Planner
Model microstrip Coplanar Waveguides to reduce radiation loss, of high-speed serial links, significantly improving product performance. Insert solder mask and dielectrics from library.Dielectric Materials Library
Over 31,250 rigid/flex materials to 100GHz. The DML improves the accuracy by using the same core, prepreg and soldermask materials stocked by the PCB Fabricator.Heads-up Impedance Plots
The Z plots are simulated by multiple passes of the field solver to create heads-up graphs of how to adjust the variables to achieve the desired impedance.Signal Flight Time
Extracts the inductance and capacitance and the propagation velocity of each layer in the stackup. The user needs enters the trace length for each signal layer, then total flight time is then calculated.S-Parameter Import
Import Sparam Models from Vendors. The Scattering Parameter (S-Param) import to the iCD PDN Planner is via the Touchstone 2-Port (s2p) format.PDN Capacitor Library
The iCD PDN Planner Starter Capacitor Library contains over 5,650 SMD Ceramic and Tantalum capacitors, extracted from SPICE models, from ATC, AVX, Johanson, Kemet, Murata, Samsung,Taiyo Yuden and TDK range that are readily available.More About Us
The company develops intuitive PCB simulation software, is a PCB Design Service Bureau and specializes in board level simulation and analysis. iCD provides the following products and services:
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Barry Olney, Managing Director of iCD, has published over 85 technical articles on high-speed digital PCB design. Here is the full list.
- What customers say about our articles:
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I did a video board with DDR2 memory a while ago on Altium. Thank you for your routing tips for DDR2, which I got off the internet. They helped a lot and the board now works like a dream. I will continue to follow your articles in the PCB magazine. It is people like yourself that make life so much easier for the rest of us. Thanks once again for your insightful articles in The PCB Design Magazine.
- Steve Knobel, Senior CAD Designer, CID+, Advanced Technologies & Engineering
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'Just a quick note to let you know we really like this program you guys made. It's doing a great job for us.'
- Michael Ingham - Spectrum Integrity Inc
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'The iCD Stackup Planner has proven very useful especially for highlighting the affects of builds and other amendments on the calculated impedance to the customers. It is both flexible and concise with only a very short learning curve required to use confidently.'
- Pete Saunders - GSPK Circuits Ltd UK - Global supplier and manufacturer of printed circuit boards
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Why Choose iCD?
iCD has been designing high-speed multilayer PCBs since 1987. Our expertise lies in controlled impedance and power distribution network analysis. Barry Olney, Managing Director, has published over 85 technical papers on high-speed PCB design and can assist customers with their design needs. Barry has a regular monthly column "Beyond Design" in The PCB Design Magazine.
iCD has developed controlled impedance solutions since 1996. The iCD Design Integrity suite of tools has industry leading accuracy with 2D Field Solver technology, unprecedented simulation speed, ease of use and accuracy at an affordable price. The iCD tools were developed by PCB Designers specifically for PCB Designers - you don't need to be an Engineer to understand and use our tools - they are intuitive and easy to use.
iCD Design Integrity Software Overview