Best PCB Design Software of 2026 - Page 4

Cadence Celsius PowerDC technology offers efficient DC analysis to ensure reliable power delivery. This includes electrical/thermal simulations for maximum accuracy. The Celsius PowerDC technology quickly identifies areas of excessive IR drop and thermal hotspots to minimize the risk of failure of your design. Highly accurate, even with complex designs that have multiple voltage domains, complex plane structures and multiple voltage domains, providing conclusive IR analysis for board and package. DC simulations can be automatically set up using PowerTree Technology (source/sink defintions) captured during the schematic stage of design. Support for multi-structures, including stacked boards, multiple die, and all popular packaging types.

Cadence®, Sigrity X PowerSI® technology helps you to tackle increasingly difficult issues related switching noise, signal coupling and target voltage levels. It provides fast, accurate and detailed electrical analyses of full IC packages and PCBs. It can be used to develop power and signal integrity guidelines before layout, or after layout to verify performance and improve the design without a prototype. Sigrity X's electromagnetic (EM) solver technology allows you to perform a wide range of studies, including identifying trace and via coupling problems, power/ground fluctuation caused by simultaneously switching out put, and designing regions that are below or above voltage targets. PowerSI technology allows you to extract frequency-dependent parameter models for network networks and visualize complex spatial relationships.

JTAG Maps™, an intuitive Altium extension, allows engineers to quickly assess test possibilities provided by the JTAG devices in their design. Engineers used to spend hours manually highlighting boundary-scan nets in a design to determine coverage. Boundary scan device model files (BSDLs), which indicate exactly which pins can or cannot be controlled by JTAG/boundary scanning, are crucial to any JTAG/boundary scanner process. JTAG Maps is compatible with BSDL models, and has an 'assume scanner covered' option. Although most users will prefer to use the JTAG Maps Altium coverage report, it is possible import a more detailed picture. The data can be exported to JTAG ProVision for further analysis. A simple message file containing full fault-coverage information can then be read back into JTAG Maps for display/highlighting.