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Boards/Backplanes
17th November 2023
Fault location system for the repair of PCBs

The new GRS200 fault locator system from Polar Instruments is based on proven Analog-Signature-Analysis, comparing the nodal impedance between an unpowered known good board and a faulty PCB.

Design
18th August 2015
Speedstack PCB system now available in multiple languages

  Polar Instruments has launched new language versions of Speedstack, the industry’s best-selling PCB layer stackup design system. In addition to English, Speedstack is now available in German, Japanese, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese versions.

Analysis
18th August 2015
PCB layer design system speaks in many languages

New language versions of Speedstack, the PCB layer stackup design system have been launched by Polar Instruments. In addition to English, Speedstack is now available in German, Japanese, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese versions. Speedstack is already licensed with OEM designers, PCB technologists and PCB fabricators worldwide, providing an ultra-fast process for creating and accurately documenting stackups for High-Density Interconnect...

Test & Measurement
1st September 2014
Test system upgrades impedance control on high-speed pcbs

Polar Instruments will preview its next-generation CITS880s Controlled Impedance Test System (CITS) at PCB West 2014 in Santa Clara, California (Sept 10).  The system introduces Launch Point Extrapolation (LPE), enabling PCB fabricators to improve impedance control for the latest high-speed PCBs which use finer trace widths and thinner coppercompared to conventional boards.

Test & Measurement
23rd October 2013
productronica: Polar to preview latest PCB test system

Polar Instruments will preview its next-generation Atlas PCB insertion-loss test system at the productronica exhibition in Munich.  Atlas 2014 introduces a new generation of Polar Instruments’ PCB insertion-loss test systems combining the upgrade from Single Ended TDR to Differential Insertion Loss (SET2DIL) to bidirectional SET2DIL and capability for Short Pulse Propagation (SPP) test method.

Test & Measurement
11th June 2013
Insertion Loss Test System Upgraded To Meet SET2DIL Enhancement

Polar Instruments says that its Atlas Si SET2DIL (Single Ended TDR to Differential > Insertion Loss) insertion loss test system will be upgraded to support Bidirectional SET2DIL from June 2013. This upgrade follows the recent IPC proposal for SET2DIL insertion loss testing to be enhanced with Bidirectional SET2DIL. Polar Instruments’ customers using previous versions of the Atlas Si test system will be offered an upgrade, at no cost, to suppo...

Design
22nd January 2013
Polar Instruments’ Speedstack Materials Library extended to include new PCB materials from Ventec Europe

Polar Instruments and Ventec Europe announce that the Materials Library in Polar’s Speedstack PCB stack-up design and documentation system has been extended to include Ventec’s latest PCB fabrication materials. The extended Speedstack library includes new materials such as Ventec’s latest VT464 halogen-free low-loss laminates which support RoHS-compliant assembly processes.

Test & Measurement
4th December 2012
Polar Instruments announces Polarcare for CITS to protect and future-proof investment in Controlled Impedance Test Systems

Polar announces Polarcare for CITS, a new maintenance and support programme for the industry standard CITS controlled impedance test system. Polarcare for CITS enables users to extend the standard CITS warranty by providing enhanced protection against accidental damage throughout the operational life of the instrument.

Test & Measurement
17th October 2012
Polar Instruments launches 8th Generation Controlled Impedance Test System CITS880

Polar Instruments has launched the 8th generation of its Controlled Impedance Test System CITS880. The new system is based on the popular TDR architecture of the CITS800, with field-proven robustness and repeatability, and adds the latest generation of control architecture to enable the fastest throughput time of any CITS to date.

Design
14th September 2011
Polar launches Speedflex HDI flex-rigid and high density interconnect stackup design and documentation system

Polar Instruments announces Speedflex HDI which supports stackup design for both High-Density Interconnect and flex-rigid PCBs and provides detailed documentation which allows the most complex stackups, to be communicated accurately throughout the supply chain.

Analysis
25th May 2011
Polar Instruments adds modeling of matte and drum sides of PCB copper layers to the Si9000e transmission line field solver

Polar Instruments announces that enhanced modeling of both the drum and matte surfaces of copper layers in high-speed PCB stack-ups has been added to the Si9000e PCB transmission line field solver.

Pending
22nd March 2011
Polar Instruments releases the Atlas Insertion-loss Test System for PCB Fabricators

Polar Instruments announces the new Atlas Insertion-loss Test System which simplifies the measurement of insertion losses during the fabrication of multi-GHz PCBs. Atlas can be used as a standalone test system, or as part of Polar’s complete suite of tools for management of transmission-line losses from PCB design to fabrication.

Analysis
6th October 2010
Polar Instruments appoints Neil Chamberlain as Signal Integrity Product Manager

Polar Instruments - a specialist provider of tools for PCB design, fabrication and test - announces that Neil Chamberlain has been appointed as Signal Integrity Product Manager, in addition to his existing role as European Sales Manager.

Design
22nd September 2010
Polar Instruments PCB repair system supports most popular CAD formats

Polar Instruments – a market leader in tools for PCB design, fabrication and test - announces the latest generation of the GRS500 CADView paperless PCB repair system, with support extended to 30 popular CAD formats as well as Windows 7 and 64-bit Windows. The system also combines dynamic linking to PDF schematics and a unique Virtual X-Ray mode.

Test & Measurement
2nd June 2010
Polar introduces enhanced hatched plane impedance modeling “XFE” for flex and rigid flex PCBs

Polar Instruments announces an extension to the capability of Si8000m and Si9000e PCB transmission line field solvers; XFE “Xhatch Flex Enhancement” is designed to be the first easy to use 2d field solver with the capability of modeling crosshatched (meshed) ground return paths on a comprehensive variety of stripline, microstrip and embedded stripline structures.

Test & Measurement
28th April 2010
Polar Instruments introduced standalone automated generator for impedance control and lossy-line PCB coupons

Polar Instruments announced the first standalone automatic generator for impedance control and lossy line PCB test coupons. CGen 2010 builds on the proven technology of Polar’s Speedstack coupon generator but adds the flexibility to directly import coupon data from manually created or scripted XML files as well as from industry-standard layer stack-up tools and Polar Instruments’ impedence control and lossy-line field solvers. CGen is the fir...

Analysis
17th February 2010
Polar Instruments appoints new CEO

Polar Instruments has appointed Martyn Gaudion as CEO with effect from January 2010. Gaudion has held various senior roles at Polar during the last twenty years and has held the position of Polar’s sales & marketing director for the past ten years.

Design
1st December 2009
Polar adds Speedflex flex-rigid PCB capability to the Speedstack layer stackup design system

Polar Instruments has added a new flex-rigid PCB design option to Speedstack, the industry’s best-selling PCB layer stackup design system. The addition of Speedflex flex-rigid design to Speedstack allows PCB fabricators and OEM designers to create and accurately document PCB stackups, combining rigid and flex-rigid PCBs, and to reduce manufacturing costs through fast evaluation of a wide range of alternative materials and suppliers.

Design
26th August 2009
Polar to sponsor a Dr. Eric Bogatin webinar on stackup design using differential pairs

Polar Instruments has announced a free webinar on PCB layer stackup design using differential pairs. Presented by signal integrity guru, Dr. Eric Bogatin, the webinar will be held at 1.00pm EST (6.00pm UTC) on Wednesday 16th September and present a master-class on how the physical design of differential pairs affects interconnect performance in printed circuit boards (PCB).

Test & Measurement
7th April 2009
Standalone Speedstack impedance coupon generator from Polar Instruments

Polar Instruments has announced the standalone Speedstack impedance coupon generator which produces Gerber files to create impedance test coupons from manual or scripted data, or by pasting data from Polar Instruments’ Speedstack PCB stackup design tools.

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