PCB Design Service

Why Choose OLogic?

OLogic stands out as a premier electronics design company in Silicon Valley. Unlike many others, we handle our own PCB design service and layout in-house. By not outsourcing, we deliver superior PCB design service results and higher-quality products earlier in the design cycle, eliminating typical communication issues and ensuring your PCB design service needs are met seamlessly.

Altium Designer

At OLogic, we use Altium Designer as our primary EDA tool. Our team consists of advanced users who have mastered this tool since our founding in 2005.

A common challenge we observe with small startups or groups with limited electrical engineering resources is a poorly configured or limited Altium library. OLogic’s team includes highly skilled Altium Librarians who can clean up your library on a design-by-design basis or directly improve your A365 instance upon access. OLogic also handles projects through ad-hoc support via a dedicated Slack channel, where clients can request parts creation as needed.

Moreover, with a meticulously curated parts library built over nearly 20 years, we often have the parts you need readily available for use in the PCB design service. Don’t risk importing a footprint from a generic source. Save yourself the hassle and let our experts manage your Altium library for you!

Valor Check

How can you be sure that the footprints in your existing library are accurate for the PCB design if they aren’t checked? The worst-case scenario is fabricating a PCB only to discover a part with the wrong number in the bill of materials. This leads to an incorrect package that the EMS vendor cannot place. At OLogic, we subject our PCB designs to a Valor footprint check. Valor, a tool by Siemens verifies all footprints in the design against manufacturer specifications for millions of electronic components. Most design shops leave this check up to their contract manufacturer (if they do this at all) to do at the time of prototyping. This tool is invaluable during the NPI process, ensuring accuracy and preventing costly errors. OLogic can bring access to this tool into your regular PCB design service cycle.

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Next Steps

After performing a Valor check, we correct any flagged component footprints and reintegrate those changes into your library for future use. If you have an electronics design captured in Altium and need a reliable partner for PCB design and layout, OLogic is your go-to source in Silicon Valley.

Our expertise includes:

High-speed design layout for DDR, MIPI, USB-3.1, HDMI, eDP, GIGe, and PCIe
Complex PCB design service and Layout utilizing HDI (High Density Interconnect)
High-power DC layout for motor controllers, battery chargers, and power control systems
Intricate stack-ups, flex, and rigid-flex circuits
Simple PCB designs suitable for low-cost fabricators and hand assembly for prototyping or cost-effective production

OLogic can collaborate with your current PCB fabrication vendor to meet their PCB design service constraints or help you find a trusted vendor, whether locally in Silicon Valley or abroad.

Passionate about PCB Design Service

Designing excellent PCBs involves more than just layout; it requires expertise in several critical areas. At OLogic, we consider all these factors in every project:

Excellent Documentation and Process: We provide clear and precise fabrication notes, customized to accommodate specific PCB design vendor processes, ensuring there is no ambiguity.
Mechanical Fit: We ensure that the PCB outline and components fit within mechanical constraints by making regular CAD exports and collaborating closely with the mechanical engineering team.
Design for Manufacturing: Our PCB design service and layouts are optimized for manufacturing tests, considering fixturing needs later in the NPI process.
BOM Management: We verify that all components used in the design are readily available and not marked as NRFD, EOL, or on allocation.
Tight Vendor Relationships: We maintain strong relationships with component vendors to assist with component availability.
High-Speed and High-Power Design Simulation: We simulate designs to ensure signal or power integrity is correct from the start. OLogic’s simulation services make for perfect PCB design. OLogic has the latest tools from Cadence for SI, PI and PDN analysis.
Thermal Considerations: We address thermal concerns from PCB materials and copper thickness to thermal simulation within an enclosure, ensuring optimal thermal performance.

John looking at a PCB layout on a computer.

PCB Debug and Bring-up

PCB design bring-up and debug is usually the next step after building a new design for the first time. OLogic has an amazing team of rework engineers who are IPC-7711/21 certified and can fix some of the most difficult rework problems you might encounter. OLogic is used to working with BGA’s, tight pitch parts, and 0201 components.

OLogic has a well-equipped lab with the latest test equipment for validating first articles of every project we work on. We have designed literally 1000’s of PCB’s in the last 20 years. You can bring this knowledge to bear on your projects.

Sometimes a project requires a quick prototype PCB design to be fabricated and rapidly assembled by hand rather than waiting for a full-turn EMS vendor to deliver. OLogic can do in a day or two what some vendors can’t even do in a week.

Why struggle on your own when you can hire us to help work alongside you to get your PCB design up and running?

Other Core Element Services

Beyond the electrical design of your project, OLogic has expertise with:

Why struggle on your own when you can hire us to help work alongside you to get your design up and running? OLogic is top-tier in Silicon Valley for PCB design service!

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