February 09, 2021 // By Nick Flaherty
Multithreaded acceleration on desktop GPUS has boosted the performance of Pulsonix version 11.0 for PCB design
UK-based EDA developer WestDev has seen an 80 percent speed increase in the latest version of its Pulsonix PCB design tool
“Many of our customers are building significantly more complex designs resulting in the need for fast and efficient PCB design tools, ” said Bob Williams, marketing director for Pulsonix, based in Tewkesbury. “Version 11.0 makes a gigantic leap in speed, dramatically reducing the time it takes to perform many PCB design operations, such as Design Rule Checking (DRC), Copper Pouring, and Gerber generation.”
Pulsonix offers new functionality with release of Version 11.0 Pulsonix, an EDA company, has released Pulsonix version 11.0 offering both significant speed improvements, as well as new functionality for high speed designs.
âMany of our customers are building significantly more complex designs resulting in the need for fast and efficient PCB design tools, â said Bob Williams, marketing director for Pulsonix. âVersion 11.0 makes a gigantic leap in speed, dramatically reducing the time it takes to perform many PCB design operations, such as Design Rule Checking (DRC), Copper Pouring, and Gerber generation.â
Significant speed improvements have been made by completely rewriting the underlying graphics engine to utilise the standard DirectX graphics and high-performance graphics cards such as those used in the gaming industry.
Customers Experience Speed Increases of up to 80% on PCB Designs Using Pulsonix 11.0
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Designs are becoming significantly more complex resulting in the need for fast and efficient PCB design tools. Pulsonix version 11.0 makes a gigantic leap in speed, dramatically reducing the times it takes to perform many PCB design operations such as Design Rule Checking (DRC), Copper Pouring, and Gerber generation. Version 11.0 is a remarkable step forward regarding performance and speed,” said Olaf Hollinger at Carl Zeiss AG. “Some of our large designs are displaying up to 2.5 times faster. In one example, we’ve seen DRCs that can be more than four times faster multi-threading using my eight cores.