Frontline InCAM Pro advanced CAM system - Redefining what’s possible in CAM

Frontline InCAM^® Pro

It's a new CAM era

Frontline InCAM^® Pro is a new CAM system for PCB manufacturers, housing some of the most sophisticated technology we’ve ever developed. Intuitive and blazingly fast, Frontline’s new flagship product redefines what’s possible in the CAM we use every day.

The fastest CAM we’ve ever made.
The most intuitive UI we’ve ever made.
More responsive to evolving needs.

What are Frontline InCAM^® Pro Packages?

In 2020, Frontline started offering new Frontline InCAM Pro packages. The packages are available as TERM licenses only, replacing the seats that Frontline used to sell, such as Graphic Editor and QA.

Frontline InCAM Pro packages are differentiated in price and functionality and can be mixed as shown in the table below. They offer customers way more value compared to the existing offering, since most existing cost options are included in the new packages. Customers no longer need to purchase each cost option separately, and have access to new functionality within the product.

In addition, Frontline InCAM Pro packages provide solutions to new factory and market technologies, ease the decision making process, and simplify product operation.

How Many Packages are There and What is the Difference?

Frontline offers three levels of packages:

Classic

Enjoy the most powerful CAM editing platform on the market, with robust analysis capabilities to ensure first-class manufacturability and quality.

Advanced

Easily input and optimize CAM data with over 300 trusted analysis, cleanup, and DFM actions, and unlock your productivity potential.

Professional

Experience the ultimate full flow CAM tool. Best in class and best for your business – from input through cleanup, analysis, DFMs, and panelization to output.

Functionality

Classic

Enjoy the most powerful CAM editing platform on the market, with robust analysis capabilities to ensure first-class manufacturability and quality.

Advanced

Easily input and optimize CAM data with over 300 trusted analysis, cleanup, and DFM actions, and unlock your productivity potential.

Professional

Experience the ultimate full flow CAM tool. Best in class and best for your business – from input through cleanup, analysis, DFMs, and panelization to output.

Basic

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Graphic Editor with CAM Guide and Workflow form. Also includes advanced verification tools: Layer Netlist Compare and Step Compare

Analysis

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PCB Analyzer - Basic analysis actions: Signal Layer Checks, Solder Mask Layer Checks, Drill Checks, Silk Screen Layer Checks, Power & Ground Layer Checks
Advanced Analysis - Etch Analysis, Trace Analysis, Critical Via Checks, Inclusion Checks Custom Analysis categories. Also includes cleanup package: Set Teardrops, Set SMD, Legend Detection, Redundant Line Removal, Line Unification

Advanced Cleanup tools

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Tieline Recognition, Connect Trace to Pad Center, Crosshatch Recognition, Critical Trace Detection, Outline to Surface, Contour to Circuits

NC Tools

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Drill Tools Manager, NC Manager, Rout Editor, V-Score Editor, Split Drill Layer. NC related analysis actions: Microvia Checks, Rout Checks, Imbach Output, Output Emerald

DFM

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A comprehensive DFM package with all common actions: Line Width Optimization, Etch Compensation, Silk Screen Optimization, Advanced Silk Screen Repair, Redundant Line Removal, Signal Layer Repair, Power and Ground Optimization, Positive Plane Optimization, Solder Paste Optimization, Drill Touching Copper Count, Neck Down Repair, Net Points Generation, Peelable & Sliver Repair, Copper Balancing, Solder Mask Repair, Plug Hole Mask Creation, Large Copper Elimination, Track Centering, Patch Bottlenecks, Plane Clearance Optimization, Parallel Spacing Optimization, Smooth Corners, Gold Tiebar Creation

Input

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Enables input of all supported formats

Output

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Enables output of all supported formats

Panel Tools

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A comprehensive set of tools to enable a full panelization flow: Panel Optimizer, Subpanel Optimizer, Film Optimizer. Also includes related analysis actions: Panel Analysis, Panel Gold Plating Checks

Drawing & Dimensioning

✔

Enables Frontline InCAM^® Pro Dimensioning function

Security

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Secures customer data with password and lock screen protection, restricted access to user management tools, and applicative SSO

Flex

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Flex editing tools, DFM Coverlay Optimization, DFM Coverlay Tool Creation, DFM Smooth Joints, DFM Tiedown Generation, DFM Smooth Surfaces, Flex Analysis, Rigid-Flex Analysis, Inclusion Checks, Automatic Tooling Holes, Tooling Hole Checks, DFM Smooth Corners, Automatic Strip Creation, VPL-based ODB++ Component Layer

Technology Packages

In addition to the Frontline InCAM^® Pro packages, functionality related to a specific technology is offered in dedicated technology packages. Each package is available at the marked Frontline InCAM^® Pro package level and can be added to a Frontline InCAM^® Pro package for the purchased number of seats.

Technology

Classic

Enjoy the most powerful CAM editing platform on the market, with robust analysis capabilities to ensure first-class manufacturability and quality.

Advanced

Easily input and optimize CAM data with over 300 trusted analysis, cleanup, and DFM actions, and unlock your productivity potential.

Professional

Experience the ultimate full flow CAM tool. Best in class and best for your business – from input through cleanup, analysis, DFMs, and panelization to output.

Flex

✔

Traceability

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PCB Numbering & Advanced PCB Numbering

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Netlist Optimizer, Line of Sight Adjacency, Subassembly Netlist Optimization, Output for flying probe: Microcraft & Hioki

IC Substrate

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IC Package Feature Classification, Bonding Pads Compensation, BGA Tieline Generation, Hammerhead Etch Compensation, Smooth Corners, Etchback Mask Analysis

Fine Line - Wet Process Tools

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DFM Advanced Etch Compensation, Etch Compensation Checks, Etch Compensation Near Holes

HDI Drill

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Via Optimization, Via Size Optimization, Stagger Via Stacks, Backdrill Creation, Backdrill Checks, Balance Via Position, Stacked Via Balancing, Outer Via Balancing

HDI Etch

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Galvanic Etch Compensation, SIT Mask Creation, Non-Tieline Gold Galvanic Compensation, Hammerhead Etch Compensation, Smooth Corners, BGA Analysis, Etch Compensation Near Holes

Advanced Packaging

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GDSII Input, Die Location Compensation

Any Questions? We’re Happy to Answer

I already have Frontline InCAM^® Pro and I just want to buy an additional Drawing & Dimension license. How can I do that?

Frontline has stopped selling cost options as stand-alone options. There are two ways to get this functionality:

Buy the Professional package that includes this functionality.
Upgrade an existing seat to the new Professional package.

I already have Frontline InCAM^® Pro and I just want to buy an ADETCH license. How can I do that?

To get ADETCH, you should buy the Fine Line – Wet process tools package. To buy this package, you must have the Professional package. You can do this either by buying a new Professional package or upgrading an existing Frontline InCAM Pro seat to the Professional package.

Improved Board Accuracy through Automation

"We can deliver boards of incredible quality and accuracy"

Increased Productivity for our Business

“Choosing Frontline InCAM^® Pro enables us to advance our business to the next level"

Improved Speed and Performance

"We accelerated our operations without increasing the burden on our operators"

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Minimum System Requirements

OS	Linux - RedHat (RHEL 6.5 and above), SUSE (SLES 12.3 and above) all 64 bit, Windows 64 bit
Platform	Intel Core i5 (or equivalent and above )
RAM	8 GB Minimum - 32 GB and up recommended
Hard Disk Size - SSD	256 GB Minimum - 1 TB and up recommended SSD highly recommended
Network Card	100 Mbps
Monitor	20" or larger, HD resolution. Multi monitor supported

The fastest CAM we've ever made.

Increase revenues and accelerate time to market
Frontline InCAM^® Pro enables faster turnaround for MLB and all job types, and excels at speeding up automated flows, courtesy of clever algorithms and infrastructure, simultaneous processing, and extended RAM usage. Feel the difference, from the step-up in response time to the satisfying way the software reacts to user input.

The most intuitive user interface we've ever made.

More complex jobs in less time, shorter training
Designed for the change-makers of the future, Frontline InCAM Pro is astonishingly easy to learn. With its clean design and intuitive feel, Frontline InCAM Pro enables the fastest and most efficient human-machine interactions with minimum training, helping CAM operators achieve more in less time.

Popup-oriented design
The popup-based interface enables at-a-glance access to multiple functions and multi-tasking on multiple screens, for faster interaction with the system.

Command Line Interface (CLI), auto-completion and keyboard operations
Type commands and use keyboard shortcuts for fast orientation and operation. Choose from built-in commands or create custom ones. The clever auto-completion feature means you only need to input the first few characters.

Easy, efficient and personalized
With an emphasis on customization and ergonomic GUI design, Frontline InCAM Pro features a bird’s-eye view Layer Matrix for layer management and a Layer List that includes your chosen layers and hides those you’ll need later.

More responsive to evolving needs.

Ready for emerging technologies
Designed to meet growing demand for smaller geometries and smarter electronic devices, Frontline InCAM Pro integrates support for the industry’s most exciting emerging technologies and trends – 5G, substrate-like circuits, flex and Industry 4.0.

Join the Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 revolution
Frontline InCAM Pro supports automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies via advanced traceability and PCB numbering.

Speed up time to market and eliminate errors with over 300 trusted DFMs that ensure manufacturability and quality. Automatically adjust silk screen, solder mask, copper layers, impedance lines and more. Simplify feature handling by automatically assigning attributes.

Faster time-consuming processes.

Shapelist Pro – Fast shape-related calculations speed up DFMs and analysis.
Memory Plus – Boosted memory drives faster algorithms and DFMs.
Netlist Prober – Cuts troubleshooting time.
Multilayer PCB Optimization – In Signal Layer Repair, Signal Layer Checks and Solder Mask Checks.
Silk Screen Classifier – Enables mass resize and edit of similar silk screen frames.
Contour to Circuit Conversion – Speeds up and optimizes production.

New interactive tools.

Save Interactive Spacing Repair (ISR) settings
Quickly solve spacing challenges and get alerts if spacing cannot be achieved. The trace modification tool lets you maintain minimum annular ring and, using predefined settings per feature pair, enables fast handling of spacing problems, without needing to reset the parameters every time.

Fast Interactive Silkscreen Repair (ISSR)
Shorten cycle time using ISSR tools for silkscreen handling – identify, resize and edit similar frames and texts, including any rotations and scale.

Snap between layers
A revolution in usability, Smart Snap lets you snap to all displayed layers using several snap modes at once – so there’s no need to switch modes or layers.

Smart selection
For fast editing, select multiple elements at once, using one or more selection methods.

Stackup collaboration
Frontline InCAM Pro enables stackup integration from Frontline InFlow to save time and ensure consistency and reliability.