Why should I upgrade to DSPCB PRO?

It adds features that a professional electronics design engineer could use & benefit from, at an attractive price point. It still has the familiar user interface you've come to like in our standard DSPCB, but with more ways to customise & manage large projects.

Here're a few key additions to DSPCB PRO plus a comparison table at the bottom. 

Advanced Autorouter

The DSPCB Pro 'Trace-Router' is superior to DSPCB’s autorouter due to its highly efficient use of available board space with gridless routing and intelligent navigation of obstacles. It produces results matching the quality and care of hand routing for all types of designs, and is ideal for surface-mount and mixed technology PCBs.

 

Split Power Planes with embedded Items

Now you have plenty of advanced features to design your board according the newest standards and rich Design Rules Editor will allow you to control distances between every elements within your PCB design.

 

Hierarchical Designs

And Hierarchical Building Blocks will help you make your multi sheet schematic design more readable and manageable.

 

Panel Editor

As well as Variant Manager, TestLands, mechanical dimensions and many other features will help you to prepare your professional design for serial manufacturing and tests

 

Intelligent Design Backups

Enhanced design backups capture significant activity based on the 'Work Time' concept. Work time is triggered by any design editing that records or invokes an Undo action. Backup interval can be adjusted to suit your pace of work and pause for idle time away from the software.

Software Comparison

	PCB Software	PCB PRO Software
Best for...	Students/ Beginners	Professional Engineers
3D view for PCB design
Access to extensive online library of manufacturer approved models
Advanced routing modes
Apply custom paste mask shapes and patterns
Basic autorouter
Advanced autorouter
Barcode and bitmap placement
Bill of Materials dialog/editor
Enhanced Bill of Materials management
Blind and buried vias
Cross hatch copper pours
Define ‘routing areas’ for autoroute
Design rules checker
Enhanced design rules checker
Design rules editor
Enhanced design rules editor
Dual screen support
Export to Mechanical Design Software
Export to simulation software (Spice)
Gerber files output editor
Hierarchical schematic design
Intelligent design backups
Library editor & manager
Mechanical dimensions
Multilayer PCB design editor
Multi-sheets schematic design
PCB Panel editor
PCB reverse view and reverse layer order
PCB Stack up manager and display
Power/Split power planes
Teardrops, bullets and asymmetrical pad shapes
Testlands
Trunk routing for differential pairs and buses
Variant manager
Cost	Free	See price here