Nuvation Engineering: Accelerating Design Services with Altium Designer
Technology Category
- Networks & Connectivity - RF Transceivers
- Sensors - RF Meters
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Time Sensitive Networking
- Virtual Prototyping & Product Testing
Services
- Hardware Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Nuvation Engineering is one of the largest independent electronic design services companies in North America. The company offers hardware design, software development, FPGA core design, integration and testing services from its operations in San Jose, California and design centre in Ontario, Canada. Its broad customer base ranges from Fortune 50 and military aerospace companies to venture-backed start-ups in North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and other locations. Nuvation Engineering offers what it calls accelerated design services to a wide range of customers, who typically demand fast design turnaround of products with challenging design specifications.
The Challenge
Nuvation Engineering, one of the largest independent electronic design services companies in North America, offers a wide range of design services to a diverse customer base. The company's engineering process must be predictable and repeatable to meet customers' requirements within agreed timeframes. The company has developed a set of 'best-of-breed' processes and methodologies to achieve consistently short design times. However, to enable the 'right first time' design ethos, Nuvation has in place a strong peer design review process. This process requires the company to have the best designers, tools, and methodologies that allow them to control and predict the process. The challenge was to improve its hardware development cycles and find a tool that was quick to learn, easy to use, efficient, and had IP core design re-use.
The Solution
After a six-month study in benchmarking across various standards, Nuvation chose Altium Designer to improve its hardware development cycles. Altium Designer is now Nuvation’s default tool for schematic and board layout. The integrated schematic and layout capability of Altium Designer has improved Nuvation’s design workflow. If there is an iteration in the schematic because of a part’s availability, or an iteration in the layout to fit a certain circuit, Nuvation designers can make changes very quickly and ripple that back and forth seamlessly between the schematic, the BOM and the layout. Using Altium Designer, Nuvation engineers have built up an extensive library of schematic symbols, layout footprints and design blocks that they re-use in different designs. Altium Designer’s ability to export and import designs and library data to and from other tools has allowed a seamless integration into Nuvation’s design process.
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