SnapEDA Adds Support for Ready-to-Use Amphenol CAD Models

Amphenol Communication Solutions, a leader in interconnected solutions, and SnapEDA, a search engine for electronic design, are releasing over 21,000 new digital models to help designers bring their products to market faster.

With this collaboration, engineers can now find readily available digital models — such as schematic symbols, printed circuit board (PCB) footprints and 3D models — for thousands of Amphenol Communications Solutions products. Over 21,000 products are supported, including cable-to-board, D-sub, power, SFP, USB and QSFP connectors.

These models are freely available to download on the Amphenol Communication Solutions’ website via the SnapEDA Viewer as well as on SnapEDA and through the SnapEDA Syndication Network.

According to SnapEDA, the motivation is to make it easier than ever to design-in high-quality Amphenol connectors into PCB designs, while enabling engineers to spend more time on designing increasingly sophisticated solutions.

Powered by the SnapEDA Viewer, users on Amphenol’s website can search for a product they need, preview and interact with the computer-aided design (CAD) models and download them in their desired PCB format of choice. Alternately, engineers can search for a product of interest on SnapEDA, where they can also be downloaded. The libraries are available to download in over 15 PCB design formats, including Altium, Cadence OrCad/Allegro, KiCad, Autodesk EAGLE and Fusion360 and more.

Amphenol is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnects systems, antenna solutions, sensors and high-speed cables. Their connector and connector system solutions include fiber optic interconnect, harsh environment interconnects, high-speed interconnect, power interconnect, power distribution and busbars and radio frequency (RF) interconnect products.

The models were created following Amphenol’s recommended land patterns and a combination of IEEE-315 and IPC-7351B as well as SnapEDA’s internal standards. In addition to providing the models, SnapEDA provides transparency to engineers by including an automated report generated by its patented verification technology. This helps engineers avoid common manufacturing issues.

With these new models, the total count of Amphenol products available on SnapEDA is now over 94,000.