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  • PCB123
    PCB123 provides the complete circuit board solution, design through order, for your prototyping and production PCB needs. PCB123 interactively checks your design against our manufacturing tolerances (DRC), and also quotes your board as you design. You know the cost and lead time for your design even as you create it. Click the in-application ORDER button, and your boards are delivered in days.
    • Version 3.3
      Release Notes
      Requirements: Windows XP, Windows Vista
      Description: The most recent version of PCB123. If you’re an accomplished PCB designer, you’ll find our integrated schematic and layout editing to be a productivity enhancer. Combined with performance enhancements, improved library management tools for your parts, and a Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) that allows you to write your own plug-ins, Version 3.3 is a truly commercial-grade tool. Opens and migrates version 2.1 layouts (but not the schematics) seamlessly.
      • PCB123_V3.3.2_AllInstaller.msi  (23.3 MB)
        Released: 5/26/2009
        Build: v3.3.2.0
        Installs the full PCB123 V3.3 application
         
      • PCB123 V2 Users Guide.pdf  (7.10MB)
        Released: 5/16/2007
        Build: N/A
        PCB123 User guide
         
      • ECOsystemWhitePaper.pdf  (414 KB)
        Released: 6/2/2009
        Build: N/A
        Sunstone Circuits’ technological collaboration with Digi-Key Corporation and NXP Semiconductor provides Sunstone PCB123 CAD users access to ready-made, certified parts symbols from NXP. Not only is sufficient information provided to ensure accurate physical design, but the collaboration also ensures efficient design with component availability and pricing information. Within the Sunstone ECOsystemSM, these new functional elements provide the end user with a turn-key level of convenience and accuracy, even when working on prototypes and early engineering projects.
         
    • Version 2.1
      Release Notes
      Requirements: Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
      Description: Our well-proven, much-respected layout editor. If you’re a casual PCB designer - or new to the PCB design process – you’ll find PCB123 Version 2.1 to be well-suited to your needs. Extensive online help, and two software tools (one for schematics, one for layout) give you the design power you require, and assistance when you need it.
  • DFM RULES
    By downloading and using these Sunstone specific rule sets you can have confidence that your board can be built by Sunstone without manufacturing difficulties or unnecessary delays.
    • For Altium
      Release Notes
      Requirements: N/A
      Description: This set of Altium Designer Design Rules implements the minimum requirements for Sunstone Circuits. When you begin designing your board these rules will keep your design in compliance with our manufacturing standards. You can load these rules: when you begin to set up the PCB workplace in Altium Designer; after you have transferred your design from the schematic to the PCB; and prior to positioning components on the board. You may find it necessary to create some additional rules of your own, along with our minimum standards, to achieve desired results such as a clean DRC report.
    • For EAGLE
      Release Notes
      Requirements: N/A
      Description: DFM Add-Ons for EAGLE are EAGLE Design For Manufacturing (DFM) Rules files, written in accordance with Sunstone's manufacturing criteria for 2, 4, and 6 layer designs.