In short
GSAS EDA Insights Series Webinars, PCB Design edition, is a free five-part online series from GSAS Micro Systems with Siemens Xpedition. It runs on Thursdays 3, 10 and 17 December 2026 and 7 and 14 January 2027, 3:30 to 4:30 PM IST. The parts cover AI in PCB design, design checks that stop respins, DDR, PCIe and HDI for edge AI, rigid-flex and ECAD-MCAD co-design, and moving from Altium or KiCad to Xpedition, each with a live demo on one edge AI board. Each part has its own registration, and GSAS emails the slides and recording to everyone who registers.
PCB teams in India are building denser, faster boards for edge AI, drones, robots and industrial products, often across several boards in one enclosure. GSAS is running a free five-part series on the design problems that come with them, with a live demo in Siemens Xpedition in every session.
Register for Part 1, 3 December, or use the Register links in the schedule below for each session.
At a glance
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | 5 live online sessions, 60 minutes each, with Q&A |
| Dates | Thursdays, 3 December 2026 to 14 January 2027 |
| Time | 3:30 to 4:30 PM IST |
| Cost | Free, registration required |
| Recordings | Slides and recording of each part emailed to all registrants |
| Demo | One edge AI board, designed in Xpedition for the series, runs through every session |
The schedule
| Date | Time (IST) | Session | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 3 Dec | 3:30 to 4:30 PM | Part 1: AI in PCB Design: What Works Today and How Reliable It Is | Register for Part 1 |
| Thu 10 Dec | 3:30 to 4:30 PM | Part 2: Why PCBs Respin and How to Stop It: Checks During Design | Register for Part 2 |
| Thu 17 Dec | 3:30 to 4:30 PM | Part 3: Designing PCBs for Edge AI: DDR, PCIe and HDI | Register for Part 3 |
| Thu 7 Jan | 3:30 to 4:30 PM | Part 4: Multi-Board Systems: Rigid-Flex and ECAD-MCAD Co-Design | Register for Part 4 |
| Thu 14 Jan | 3:30 to 4:30 PM | Part 5: Moving from Altium or KiCad to Xpedition: What Transfers and What Changes | Register for Part 5 |
Each session has its own registration. Register for every part you want to attend; each sends its own confirmation email with the joining link.
Part 1. AI in PCB Design: What Works Today
Every EDA vendor now markets AI, and it is hard to tell which features save time on a real board. Part 1 maps where AI sits in the PCB flow today, across part discovery, layout, placement and routing, and manufacturing checks. It then runs the AI features in Xpedition live on the series’ edge AI board, and shows where the engineer still decides.
Part 2. Respins: Catch Errors at the Cheapest Stage
A respin means another fabrication run and lost weeks. Part 2 covers where errors enter a design and why each later stage costs more to fix. Planted errors on the board are caught as the design progresses: a DDR topology issue at schematic, DC drop on the SoC core rail, a manufacturing defect before release, and an electrical rule violation.
Part 3. Edge AI Hardware: Density and Speed on One Board
Edge AI puts compute, memory and camera links onto small boards. Part 3 sets up stackup and impedance, applies DDR constraints from a template, routes and tunes an LPDDR4 byte lane and a PCIe differential pair, and fans out under the SoC with microvias, all live.
Part 4. Multi-Board Systems: Several Boards, One Enclosure
Drones, robots and smart cameras are several boards in a tight enclosure. Part 4 joins a main board and a camera board with a rigid-flex section, carries a connector change across the system, applies flex bend-zone rules, and catches an enclosure collision in 3D.
Part 5. Switching Tools: What Transfers and What Changes
Part 5 covers what moves across from Altium (schematic, layout and libraries), what to expect when coming from KiCad, what changes (constraints, library structure and workflow), and how to plan the move for a team, with an Altium version of one block of the series board imported into Xpedition live.
Who presents
Ranjith Kumar Jadam, Technical Director and Solution Architect, with Sampath Radha Krishna and Bhavana Deevi, Field Application Engineers. All three are from GSAS and present every session.
Who should attend
PCB and hardware design engineers, PCB layout engineers, signal and power integrity engineers, design leads and ECAD managers, and Altium or KiCad users looking at their next tool.
Can’t make it live?
Register anyway. After each session we email the slides and the recording to everyone who registered, whether or not they attended.
Evaluating Xpedition for your team?
GSAS Micro Systems is a value added distributor/reseller for Siemens EDA in India, with a dedicated FAE team. Features vary by Xpedition edition and add-on, and GSAS can map each demo to the edition it needs. Talk to us about Xpedition Standard, Xpedition Advanced, Xpedition Enterprise or a guided evaluation for your project. Talk to our team.
Siemens and Xpedition are trademarks of Siemens. Product images: Siemens Digital Industries Software.
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