Moving from Altium or KiCad to Xpedition: What Transfers and What Changes

Switching PCB tools is a cost every team weighs carefully. Part 5 covers what moves across from Altium, what to expect from KiCad, what changes, and how to plan the move for a team, with an Altium version of one block of the series board imported into Xpedition live.

This is Part 5 of 5 in the GSAS EDA Insights Series Webinars, PCB Design edition. Every session uses the same edge AI board, designed in Siemens Xpedition for the series, and includes a live demo.

What’s covered

• What moves across from Altium (schematic, layout and libraries), and what to expect when coming from KiCad.
• What changes: constraints, library structure and workflow.
• A live import of an Altium version of one block of the series board into Xpedition, cleaned up and checked.
• How to plan the move for a team, and how to request a guided evaluation with GSAS.

Who should attend

Altium and KiCad users, design leads and engineering managers weighing a move to Xpedition.

Session time

Ranjith Kumar Jadam, Technical Director and Solution Architect, presents with Sampath Radha Krishna and Bhavana Deevi, Field Application Engineers. All three are from GSAS.

The full series

1. AI in PCB Design: What Works Today and How Reliable It Is, Thu 3 Dec
2. Why PCBs Respin and How to Stop It: Checks During Design, Thu 10 Dec
3. Designing PCBs for Edge AI: DDR, PCIe and HDI, Thu 17 Dec
4. Multi-Board Systems: Rigid-Flex and ECAD-MCAD Co-Design, Thu 7 Jan
5. Moving from Altium or KiCad to Xpedition: What Transfers and What Changes (this session)

Each part has its own registration. Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we will send you the slides and the recording. For an overview of all five parts, see the series announcement.

Related reading

• Migrating to Xpedition

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.