Our PCB design team is ready to work with your design engineering team to make your design a reality. We use remote Internet viewers to get direct real-time input from engineering to reduce product development schedules and to ensure your design is completed to your specifications. CID certified designers can help you design your high complexity, high speed, and high layer count boards. PCB Design Services is tightly coupled with our manufacturing and test systems and use the best of both IPC and internal manufacturing standards. Dedicated prototype labs provide quick-turn hand and machine assembled prototypes to meet customers’ short design cycle times.

As technology advances, the Benchmark PCB Design team moves with the new technology and has successfully implemented new technologies into designs that are in production. A list of some of the technologies implemented includes.

• Microvia technology
• Blind and buried Vias
• Buried capacitors and resistors
• Controlled impedance
• 2 layer to 36 layer PCBs
• Flex and Rigid Flex PCBs
• CSP technology

The Hardware and PCB design team uses a number of schematic capture and PCB layout tools to capture and implement a printed circuit board design.

Schematic Capture

• Cadence/OrCad Capture
• Cadence Concept HDL
• Mentor Graphics Design Capture
• Mentor Graphics DxDesigner (View Logic)

PCB layout

• Mentor Graphics Expedition
• Mentor PADs PCB
• Cadence Allegro

Signal Integrity is an important aspect of high speed PCB designs to verify expectations and requirements. As signal speeds continue to increase, relying on general PCB routing guidelines is becoming insufficient. Signal integrity analysis is quickly becoming required to help guarantee the quality signals prior to building prototypes and verifying signal integrity in the lab.

Benchmark Design Services utilize the following software tools for signal integrity analysis.

• Mentor Graphics HyperLynx
• Cadence SPECCTRAQuest