Improving PCB Development: Altair PollEx™ Helps Samsung SDI Save 6 Million USD

【 Industry 】

       Semiconductor (EDA)

【 Challenge 】

       Samsung SDI shifted from manufacturing digital display control circuits to battery control circuits, requiring innovation in electronic design and PCB manufacturing technologies, while also reducing development time and the number of design iterations.

【 Solution 】

       Samsung SDI adopted Altair PollEx™ to perform PCB design review and validation, strengthening management of the entire process from PCB design through manufacturing.

【 Benefits 】

• Significantly reduced the number of iterations from PCB design to manufacturing.

• Quickly visualized, viewed, and compared PCB designs from major ECAD systems.

• Enabled secure and efficient communication and collaboration when sharing and reviewing PCB designs.

• Reduced development time and saved millions of dollars in development costs.

       Samsung SDI used Altair PollEx PCB Modeler and PCB verification modules to conduct PCB design review and validation. This evaluation focused on supported Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Electrical (DFE) rules with the goal of managing and enhancing the entire process from PCB design to manufacturing.

       With easy-to-use collaboration features, PollEx enables seamless communication among PCB designers, hardware engineers, test engineers, and manufacturing engineers located in different offices worldwide. Samsung SDI needed a solution that could be used across all branches while allowing centralized management of design rules and verification environments.

       Altair worked closely with Samsung SDI engineers to ensure that the PCB verification solution could be applied to both existing and new products with different verification requirements. Thanks to PollEx, Samsung SDI established a highly efficient collaborative environment within two months, allowing its PCB verification capabilities to benefit multiple teams.

       With this environment, PCB layout engineers can upload PCB layout designs to the PDM server, including designs in PollEx format. Afterwards, all engineers can review PCB designs using PCB Modeler while running PollEx PCB verification tools.

【 PollEx Unlocks Design Potential 】

       — Shorter design cycles and lower development costs

• Easily and quickly visualize, view, and compare PCB designs from major ECAD systems, while securely sharing these designs.

• Significantly reduces costs by detecting manufacturability, assembly, and electrical defects or failures early in the design process.

This article is excerpted from Altair Taiwan Blog 【Full article click here】