Altair PollEx Software | PCB & EDA Verification
Altair PollEx is a PCB-level EDA verification suite used for design review, rule-based checking, electrical analysis, and manufacturing preparation. It helps teams review PCB data from major ECAD systems, validate manufacturability and assembly rules, analyze signal, power, and thermal behavior, and move cleaner data into downstream manufacturing and simulation workflows.
What is Altair PollEx?
Altair PollEx is a PCB-level Electronic Design Automation software suite for design review, analysis, verification, and manufacturing workflows. It imports board data from major ECAD systems and neutral formats, then gives engineering teams tools to review schematics, PCB layouts, Gerber data, and BOM information, compare revisions, run rule-based checks, perform PCB electrical and thermal analyses, and prepare data for manufacturing-related processes.
PollEx is built around verification rather than PCB authoring. Its strength is helping teams catch manufacturability, assembly, and electrical issues earlier, while improving collaboration between schematic, PCB, CAE, and manufacturing stakeholders.
Key Features Of PollEx
Cross-Platform ECAD Connectivity
PollEx supports major ECAD sources including Altium, Cadence, Autodesk EAGLE, Siemens EDA, Zuken, ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, and CAM350, making it useful in mixed-tool environments where PCB data needs to be reviewed and verified without depending on a single authoring system.
Rule-Based PCB Verification
PollEx includes rule-based verification for manufacturability, assembly, and electrical design quality, with DFM, DFA, DFE, and DFE+ workflows designed to catch faults early in the board development process.
Early PCB Analysis and Manufacturing Readiness
Beyond review and rule checks, PollEx supports signal integrity, power integrity, and board-level thermal analysis, while also providing manufacturing-oriented functions for paneling, mounting, test-point generation, solder quantity evaluation, and related downstream preparation.
Capabilities Of PollEx
Multi-Format PCB Data Import
PollEx can import PCB designs from major ECAD vendors as well as neutral formats such as ODB++ and IPC-2581, helping teams work across existing tool chains without rebuilding data.
PCB, Schematic, Gerber, and BOM Review
The suite supports review of PCB layouts, schematic designs, and Gerber data, along with comparison between PCB revisions, schematic revisions, and PCB, schematic, and BOM content.
Search, Query, Measure, and Markup Tools
PollEx PCB Modeler supports object query, search, measurement, net visualization, topology display, and Red-Mark style commenting so teams can review and communicate design issues directly on imported data.
DFM, DFA, DFE, and Logic DFE Checks
PollEx provides rule-based verification for manufacturing, assembly, and electrical engineering, including dedicated tools for DFM, DFA, DFE, DFE+, and Logic DFE. Official documentation also details hundreds of checking items across these categories.
Signal Integrity and Power Integrity Analysis
PollEx includes PCB electrical analysis capabilities for signal integrity and power integrity, including transmission line analysis, waveform and eye diagram analysis, crosstalk analysis, RLGC parameter extraction, PDN impedance outputs, and IR-drop related outputs.
Board-Level Thermal Analysis
PollEx supports board-level thermal analysis using FEM-based methods, including results for board contour, board top and bottom, and component junction temperature, with support for Joule heating of traces.
Material and Part Library Support
Analyses are supported by a built-in material library, and part properties can be drawn from Unified Part Libraries, helping standardize setup across verification and solver workflows.
Manufacturing Preparation and Data Output
Manufacturing-oriented capabilities include board paneling, mounting data extraction, mounting emulation, metal mask management, solder quantity calculation, test-point location generation, underfill path data creation, and export of fabrication, mounting, paneling, and testing data for downstream production use.
Reporting and Result Export
PollEx supports documentation and reporting workflows, including formatted Excel export of verification results and data outputs that can be used in downstream manufacturing and simulation processes.
Expert PollEx Support By True Insight
Licensing Guidance And Onboarding
TrueInsight helps teams adopt Altair PollEx with practical engineering support, not just software access. As an official Altair channel partner that also supports Siemens workflows, TrueInsight helps with product evaluation, guided demos, licensing guidance, onboarding, workflow setup, and early troubleshooting so teams can move from trial or purchase into repeatable PCB verification workflows more quickly.
Articles & Resources
SIGNAL INTEGRITY ANALYSIS WITH ALTAIR POLLEX™ DDR DESIGN CASE
Altair PollEx Signal Integrity is applied to a DDR3 design case to identify signal quality problems early and improve voltage and timing margins through practical PCB changes such as termination, topology balancing, and stackup refinement.
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Samsung SDI Saves Six Million USD Annually with Altair PollEx™
When Samsung SDI transitioned to the electronic materials business, several challenges surfaced that needed to be addressed. The company had to move from digital display control circuits to battery control circuits, requiring a different approach to new electronic designs and related printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing technologies.
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It is used to review, verify, analyze, and prepare PCB designs for downstream engineering and manufacturing workflows. That includes PCB and schematic review, rule-based verification, SI and PI checks, thermal analysis, and manufacturing-oriented preparation.
No. PollEx is centered on PCB review, verification, analysis, and manufacturing support around imported design data. It is not positioned as a primary PCB layout authoring environment.
PollEx supports major ECAD and neutral formats including Altium, Cadence, Autodesk EAGLE, Siemens EDA, Zuken, ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, and CAM350.
Yes. PollEx includes dedicated verification workflows for DFM, DFA, DFE, DFE+, and Logic DFE, covering manufacturing, assembly, and electrical validation.
Yes. PollEx includes PCB solver capabilities for signal integrity, power integrity, and board-level thermal analysis.
Yes. PollEx includes manufacturing-focused tools for tasks such as paneling, mounting data extraction, mounting emulation, solder quantity calculation, test-point generation, and related fabrication or assembly data output.