In terms of seat count, Altium is lower in the spectrum, but trying to position themselves up into the enterprise. Mentor Graphics: Cadence, Zuken, and Mentor are all competing at the high-end. Zuken: Recent statistics indicate that between packaging and board tools, it’s about $700 million. And that high-end represents, disproportionately, 70-to-80 percent of the market revenue in PCB design tools. At the top of the pyramid, there’s lower volume, but higher value per seat. At the bottom are companies who purchase larger numbers of seat counts, but pay lower dollars per seat. Mentor Graphics: The calculations are difficult, but we Gary Smith’s pyramid model. The market is currently around $500 million worldwide. * WWJD: How large is the market for PCB design tools?Īltium: We refer a lot to Gary Smith EDA, working off the charts he puts together. Mentor Graphics: Dave Wiens, PCB division business developmentĬadence: Hemant Shah, Product Management Group DirectorĪltium: Dave Reed, Director of Product Marketing Zuken: Bob Potock, VP Marketing Humair Mandavia, Executive Director, SOZO Center Here are the people I spoke with for this lengthy article: The folks I talked to have been in the industry for a long time, and have a seasoned and intelligent understanding of the evolution of board designers and the tools that support their efforts. These conversations were not only interesting, they were inspiring as well. That’s the unqualified conclusion I came away with after a number of phone calls over the last several weeks with the four of the biggest companies in the PCB design-tool industry: Zuken, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, and Altium. Sierra Circuits helps you get to market faster with an engineering team who has been designing and manufacturing the most reliable PCBs since 1986.Board design is evolving quickly: The vendors who sell CAD tools to the people who design boards are working hard these days to keep up with the changing needs of their customers. RLC Resonant Frequency and Impedance Calculator.Bandwidth, Rise Time and Critical Length Calculator.Transmission Line Reflection Calculator.

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