Above is a dashboard circuit for the 97-_99 Chrystler Town & Country dodge Caravan. The shape of the dashboard of a car is complicated. If electronic design software is used to define the shape of the panel directly, it takes time and effort. AlTIum Designer supports the import of DWG/DXF. It can directly import structural shapes designed by structural engineers in AutoCAD into AD, and define the shape of the plate to ensure accurate PCB dimensions and save a lot of time.
AlTium Designer Solution:
AlTIum Designer can be imported from DWG/DXF mechanical design software in a simple and easy way, and then define the board shape according to the imported size. It is also possible to import 3D models of housings and components to perform organic fits between mechanical design and electronic design. Facilitate communication and collaboration between mechanical designers and electronic designers.
Supports DWG/DXF file import definition board shape
According to the structure of the 3D model definition PCB shape, greatly reducing the intermediate links.
Full support for STEP format, exchange of data with popular 3D mechanical software, can be imported into the design board shell. Real-time validation and resolution of all assembly issues early in the design process.
Synchronously link the STEP components of the components in the design and verify assembly problems in real time.
Pain Point 2: Application of Flexible Circuit Boards in the Automotive IndustryReliability and safety are the life of the car. In modern automotive electronics design, in order to improve reliability, a large number of Rigid-Flex (Rigid-Flex) boards are used instead of traditional connectors to connect PCBs and PCBs, modules and modules. Therefore, flexible board design support is particularly important in EDA tools. In addition, the connection between a flexible board (soft board) and a conventional conventional circuit board (hard board) is generally not intuitive during the design process. The designer can't see the effect in real time for the effect he wants to achieve. Causes the pain of constant attempts and modifications during the design process. As shown in the figure below, the hard and soft bonded board is connected by multiple hard boards and multiple soft boards in different ways. It is a huge project in design, and it takes a lot of effort and time to overcome this part of the key design.
Altium Designer's hard-and-hard combination circuit supports checking the pitch with native 3D views. Clearer and more space-saving than ordinary circuit boards. It is an ideal solution in the design field where space is required. Its advantages are as follows:
Can be folded, bent, squeezed into a very small space, which facilitates product miniaturization.
The flexible circuit part reduces the need for interconnecting wiring and soldering connectors, making the entire system circuit more reliable and durable; the stress on the solder joints is smaller, and the insulating film is more heat-resistant than ordinary circuit boards.
Quickly create 3D video animations to show PCB folding in a rich, easy-to-understand format.
Pain 3: Different configurations of the same car lead to a large number of redundant drawingsIn the same model, for cost and management considerations, each electronic control module usually shares the same PCB, but due to different configurations, there may be cases where devices at certain positions on the PCB are installed or installed with different devices. In this case, there may be a lot of redundancy in schematics and BOMs, and there are hidden risks in management.
Altium Designer Solutions: Application of Assembly Variables
Altium Designer provides assembly variants. Using the same schematic, the same PCB, and the same design project, you can manage different versions of the installation. As shown in the figure above, the large red cross mark is not installed in the new product. Different green values ​​indicate that the components installed in the new product are changed to other components in the same package. Different versions of this assembly variable are also synchronized to the BOM list, as well as manufacturing and assembly files. This allows the design team, procurement team, manufacturing and assembly team to switch between different products very easily and to have a clear work order.
Pain 4: Device Selection and Component ManagementIt takes a long time for the engineers to choose the device to be selected (query the device data sheet, communicate with Component Engineer or the price of the purchase communication device), and the cost estimate is inaccurate. The lack of unified management of components and components has led to a long design cycle, conflict between procurement and designers, and designing products that exceed budgets.
Altium Designer Solutions: Supply Chain SearchAltium Desigenr's supply chain search function addresses device selection and component management issues. As shown in the figure below, each component can be connected to its supply chain information.
Through supply chain search, engineers can greatly simplify their design steps, shorten design time, and increase work efficiency through the following operations.
Each component can be easily connected to its supply chain database
Can easily view the datasheet information datasheet of the component, optimize the circuit of the module
Can understand the different suppliers of this component, supply channels. Understand the component purchase cycle.
Query the unit price, batch price, etc. of the component, and control the cost
You can view this component inventory information. Avoid conflicting information with component procurement.
Pain point 5: How to effectively manage massive design data and information?An important part of the design is the many important drawings produced by the automotive electronics design, orderly management of data and the like. The system management of these data files and the design of the mechanical structure, procurement, manufacturing, processing, document filing, etc., and the link between the collaborative design and the links are crucial for the entire company. Altium Designer offers a number of different options for centralized shared management of system data.
Altium Designer Solutions: Version Control and Vault ManagementAs shown in the figure below, the classic version controls SVN.
With integrated version control, you know exactly who changed the design and when it was changed. Use the detailed change logs to compare changes and keep track of the design.
The version control system VCS (Version Control System) provides a key link to help the design team understand when, why, and which designers made changes. It is a standard tool for maintaining design data management.
VCS is usually independent of design tools, and Altium Designer integrates several VCSs so that designers can perform the best design data management from within the design environment.
Vault solves data management problems:
As shown in the above figure, Vault is very powerful and can basically solve the management of all design data and information in the design process. Including the following:
License management system management. Including license activation, loading, distribution, management
Component components management. The component management runs through the design cycle and can be invoked from schematic design, PCB design, and design output.
Design data design data management. Including design schematics, PCB and other design drawings.
Project project management. Including project design data, BOM data, manufacturing data, assembly data and other related documents for clear classification management
Pain point 6: Automatic wiring is too bad! Manual wiring is too much effort!
In terms of wiring, the engineers all complained: Manual wiring, drawing one by one like embroidering, is too tired. It often takes a few hours or days for manual wiring. This is a huge project. Do not want to one by one wiring, with automatic routing function? Always feel so bad. There are too many places around, and some places are too chaotic. The results of the entire wiring look disorganized, like a mess, look upset, not as good as their own hands to a cloth. There are no powerful routers. Close to my wiring intentions. And can I specify the path in the area where I need to make a routing path, and do my clean and tidy wiring as I intended?
Altium Designer Solution: Active Route
One of Altium Designer's new features is the interactive Route Auto Route artifact. Well, the designers of the gods took a second to understand. How can this wiring artifact save you time and effort? Free yourself from the process of staring at the screen! Sometimes life does not need to be so hard-handed to fight. Well, people's small cloths are good for the main bank. what? Not satisfied with the path? The main silver you draw the root guide line guide me about, where a small cloth to ensure that where to go with your intentions heaven!
Features are as follows:
Powerful autorouter, interactive autorouter. A change in the past can not interfere with the overall situation of automatic wiring.
Feel free to select a certain number of networks and autoroute only those selected networks.
Create the desired routing path and instruct the automatic router to plan the route according to your intentions.
After the wiring is completed, it is convenient to adjust and correct, making the wiring effect more reasonable and beautiful.
Altium Customers customers:
Suizhou simi intelligent technology development co., LTD , https://www.msmsmart.com