PADS Professional

Empowers engineers. Unites teams. Unlocks innovation. A complete PCB design platform that includes board design and analysis technologies, cloud-enabled collaboration, part research and creation, and real-time supply-chain insights.

PADS Professional VX.2.12

PADS PCB design software is a powerful and intuitive platform for designing PCB. Provides customers with a comprehensive suite of tools for schematic design, component placement and auto routing.

PADS is packed with features such as automated design rule checking, interactive routing, and powerful analysis and simulation capabilities. With PADS, customers can quickly and easily design reliable PCB that meet their exact specifications.

PADS is the go-to choice for PCB design professionals who need fast, reliable designs without compromising on quality.

Why PADS Professional Premium?

Discover why PADS Professional Premium is an affordable, intuitive, easy-to-use PCB design software platform for engineers and small teams worldwide.

Industrial proven technology

PADS Professional Premium is reliable and proven, providing cutting edge PCB design capabilities based on the powerful Xpedition technology.

Cloud connected

Flexible, cloud-enabled collaboration, component research, component sourcing, design and analysis management, and manufacturing.

Advanced PCB design

Fully integrated solution that scales based on the size and scope of your project. A complete PCB design platform including rigid flex design, RF technology, FPGA/PCB optimization and Multi-trace HSD tuning.

The PADS Professional Premium ecosystem

Take your electronic designs from prototype to production in one environment. You will have access to PCB design functionality, cloud collaboration and version management, part selection, library creation, component sourcing data and even more tools that enable a complete PCB Design flow.

PCB design and analysis

PADS Professional Premium delivers everything you need to design your simplest to most complex PCB designs. Full function, yet easy to use, with features and technologies like:

Routing automation
Rigid-flex
RF design
Analog/mixed-signal simulation
Signal integrity analysis

Supply chain resilience

When creating a schematic, PCB engineers have access to real-time component sourcing data, empowering them to make more informed decisions about their selected components when the cost of making changes is lowest.

Powered by Siemens SupplyFrame and connected to more than 80 suppliers worldwide, you have access to component information, including:

Pricing
Compliance
Availability
Lifecycle data

Cloud-enabled collaboration

With PADS Professional Premium you can store and access PCB design assets in a secure cloud workspace through any web browser, anywhere, with:

Built-in versioning
Project-history summaries
Check-in comments

Sharing design and BOM data with all project stakeholders and cross-functional team members is effortless and made secure with role-based team management.

Part research and creation

Search for components from an ever-expanding catalog of billions of parts. Easily find the:

Symbol
IPC compliant footprint
3D model

If the required symbol or footprint for a part is not found, you can use the Part Creation Service to easily request that this library information be created, or you can create custom library elements using either of two wizard-based apps that provide part builder templates for symbols and a guided IPC compliant footprint builder.

PCB manufacturing

Integrated DFM analysis in PADS Professional Premium allows you to identify and correct potential PCB fabrication and assembly issues in the design database before they hit the production floor, eliminating costly manufacturing delays while ensuring the electrical performance of the final product.

PADS Professional Premium Design for Manufacturing allows you to create and optimize assembly panels, regardless of PCB shape, including:

Adding fiducials
Tooling holes
Breakaway tabs
V-score features

Free on-demand learning

A complete portfolio of learning paths for schematic design, constraint definition, PCB layout, and library creation and management.

Included with a PADS Professional Premium subscription
Access to cloud-based environment for hands-on lab exercises
Access to new training content added during the subscription period
Knowledge assessments to measure learning progress

Learn more about PADS Professional Premium

PADS Professional Premium covers all a designer’s needs from the simplest to most complex designs. Learn more by exploring our resources.

E-BOOK

Twelve ways to elevate your electronic design process using PADS Professional Premium

This eBook highlight 12 ways to evaluate your electronic design process using PADS Profesional Premium

TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

Why PCB design teams switch to PADS Professional Premium – everything it offers

This detailed 16 minutes video overview explains the benefits of the PADS Professional Premium edition that allows PCB design teams to takes an electronic design from concept to production in one easy-to-use environment.

TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

PADS Professional- The complete PCB Design solution for engineers and workgroups

As electronics content increases, so does design complexity. This video offers insights into how PADS Professional delivers powerful PCB design capabilities in an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution for hardware engineers.