Z-PLANNER DESIGNER™

Z-planner Designer™

Z-planner Designer is PCB stackup planning and materials selection software that’s optimized for impedance planning and loss budgeting for PCB stackups. Z-planner Designer includes a subset of the stackup design features found in Z-planner Enterprise™, which is sold separately.

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Z-planner Designer Includes

Benefits of Z-planner Designer

Simulate impedance with the HyperLynx field solver

Fast stackup creation with Stackup Wizard

Pressed prepreg thickness

Sequential-lamination support

Design stackups up to 20 layers

Z-solver™ cross-section analysis, including impedance and loss

Comprehensive dielectric materials library

Import/export Altium Designer stackup files

Import/export IPC-2581 stackup files

Automated stackup DFM checks

Excel stackup export

Dielectric Material Library

The industry’s largest dielectric-materials library, including laminates from AGC-Nelco, EMC, Doosan, ITEQ, Nanya, Panasonic, Shengyi, TUC, and Ventec

Full accounting for frequency, resin content, glass style, and pressed prepreg thickness

Z-zero library, spreadsheet-manageable Corporate library, and local (desktop) libraries

Library updates as they become available over the Internet

Built-in filters for common constraints like halogen-free materials, dual-ply cores, and a complete set of the IPC 4101 slash sheets

Custom filters using any mechanical or electrical material parameters

Material Mapper™ includes comprehensive plots, including Dk, Df, Tg, Td, z-CTE, and x-y CTE

Built-in interface to Z-field™ for direct Dk and Df measurements from laminates from 1-20 GHz

Z-planner Enterprise (sold separately) also includes Material Matching™ for automated stackup redesign based on material parameters

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