Custom PCB Design

Over the last 25 years, the team at Quantum CAD has been designing PCBs in the UK and helping clients bring award-winning products to market. We do this rapidly and cost-effectively with a well-refined PCB engineering service. 

We have been trusted by companies such as Siemens, General Electric and Land Rover, to provide PCB design expertise and manufacturing guidance, all under one roof.

If you’re looking for an experienced and communicative team that can deliver a high-quality PCB for efficient and reliable production, we would be delighted to talk with you. 

Have a custom PCB design project you’d like to discuss? 

Our services

We specialise in all aspects of PCB design (single sided, multilayer and flexible PCBs) and PCB Library Management.

PCB Design

  • We offer end-to-end professional PCB design for HDI, multi-layer, flexible and High Power (Insulated Metal Substrate) PCBs. Our PCB designers will work with you in developing a design specification to ensure we deliver a PCB that works for you. This will take into consideration, for example, current/resistance, skew, impedance, thermal and mechanical constraints. This will remove the need for any unnecessary rework, thus reducing time to market.
  • We design custom PCBs using Altium, Allegro/OrCAD, CADSTAR, eCADSTAR and PADS. This allows us to seamlessly integrate into your design flow, re-using your existing design data where possible, therefore reducing waste. If you don't have a preference as to which design tool we use, you can be rest assured that the software used in our PCB engineering service is state of the art.
  •  All our custom PCB designs are 3D enabled. This ensures you can verify your design will always fit your enclosure, first time every time. Component clashes are one of the most frequent failures in PCB design, adding significant cost to the project and resulting in missed product opportunity. Using our 3D enabled design avoids this wasted time and cost.

  • Not only will we design your custom PCB, but we always take manufacturability into account. This ensures the highest yield and therefore reducing your overall costs. We believe in the need to use the appropriate design rules for your design; why use fine line geometries when your PCB design does not need them? Our designs will ensure the manufacturing process is as straightforward as possible.

PCB Library Management Service

Many leading businesses use our PCB Library Management Service to ensure their production is seamless, error-free, and cost-efficient. If you don't have a PCB Library, we can create and manage one for you or you can utilise ours. 

The benefits of our library management service include: 

  • Avoided errors and reworks. Without a PCB librarian and meticulous checks on parts, errors can arise when a PCB is assembled. Resolving these issues often takes considerable time and money. That’s why we offer PCB library services; we provide checked and approved parts which will fit as they’re supposed to, meaning your PCB will be right the first time around. 

  • The highest quality parts. Our library of parts, symbols, and footprints are fully peer-checked before delivery with our ISO accredited process. These thorough checks ensure that our parts are always of the highest standard for every project, fitting and working exactly as they’re supposed to. 

  • Saved time. As we’re experienced PCB librarians, our process for PCB library management is tried and tested. This means that businesses who use our library service benefit from an optimised and efficient service, allowing them to get their PCBs up and running quickly and reliably.

  • Get your project back on track. If your library is currently a bottleneck or if your PCB has footprint errors, we can help. By using us as a dedicated librarian, we’ll be able to clear your bottleneck quickly and efficiently, getting your project back on track. We’re also able to review your library of parts, resolve any of the issues, and manage your library moving forward.


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Our Clients


Our Expertise

With a combined experience of over 100 years, the QuantumCAD team is well-experienced in electrical engineering and PCB design – from flexible to high-power PCBS – for a wide variety of industries. 

Our experience also includes working with companies of various size and experience, from fresh innovators to large established enterprises. All of this means that we’re able to to take a vast range of PCB engineering projects, with ease and efficiency, and bring our in-depth experience to bear. 

Based in the UK, our PCB team is ISO 9001:2015 accredited and CID/CID+ trained. 

Our Approach

We believe that communication is vital during any design project. To that end, we have implemented a Project Management System - ClickUp - that allows us to integrate you into the project. All tasks and their status, comments and actions can be added and reviewed. This means no more reviewing endless emails and their threads and no more wasted time. 

“Clickup enabled me to keep a single list of the tasks that needed doing without having them scattered across multiple emails. This is especially useful for rapid turnarounds where the design requires last-minute design tweaks."

- Tom Poskitt - 42 Technology (QuantumCAD client)

Our close collaboration with clients is what often leads to our greatest successes. By listening carefully to your requirements and having an open dialogue, we’re able to lend well-informed insights and suggestions. Not only does this mean that we’re often able to offer advanced solutions from the first iteration of design, it also means we can take your ideas and develop innovative solutions. 

An example of ClickUp in action

PCB Design Process

Our tried and tested design process is key to the success of all of our projects. 

1. Capturing your requirements. To ensure we deliver a design that meets your expectations, it’s vital we take this first step. We’ll ask you for a documented version of your requirements or, if you don’t have a design brief, we will work with you to design one. Just like building a house, we need good foundations. 

2. Creation of parts, symbols, and footprints. We eliminate one of the most common reasons of a PCB re-spin with an ECAD library. A library containing verified parts, symbols, footprints and 3Ds models will reduce time-consuming checking at the end of the design, reduce manufacturing errors and save money. 

3. Schematic capture. We can convert your schematic PDF into CAD or reuse your existing CAD file. We will add the required design rules to aid the process so your PCB layout is right the first time. 

4. PCB Design. We’ll carefully design your PCB so it fits right the first time. Whether you’re looking for a multiplayer PCB, Flexible PCB, HDI, PoP, DDR or any other type of PCB design, we can work with you to achieve it. 

5. 3D Validation. This final step in our design process will eliminate another one of the common reasons for a PCB re-spin. We will create a 3D model of your PCB to verify it will fit into its enclosure.

Industries

Having been in business for over 25 years, we’ve gained a wide breadth of experience designing PCBs for many industries. This experience is invaluable. Not only does it enable us to offer insightful and innovative PCB solutions from the start of a project, it also means the project isn’t stalled by having to gain clearance for sensitive information. For example, our entire team is security cleared for working on Defence projects and we have strict processes for data security. 

We have experience working with: 

  • Medical & Healthcare
  • Defence & Security
  • Rail & Marine
  • Automotive 
  • Communications

A PCB design company with a difference

Established in the UK in 1995, QuantumCAD was created to be a PCB design firm with a difference. We wanted to provide market leaders and product innovators with exceptionally high-level PCB Design. 

We saw a gap in the market for a small, well-experienced PCB design company that would work closely with clients to bring their products to life. We filled that gap and have had some great successes along the way, with clients such as Siemens, Land Rover, and General Electric. 

As a team, we’ve worked closely with one-another for many years. We work collaboratively, with each person bringing their wide-range of experience to each project. If you want to find out more about our PCB designers and history, you can find out more on the About Us page. 

"From the first prototype build, we had a product that was ready for production.
I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Quantum CAD.”

Teledyne e2v

Principal Engineer

Our PCB Projects

RED BULL 

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 Featherlight power control modules

NETWORK RAIL

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Durable tacho distribution units

ZONEART

zone art

Complex 3D WiFi Access Points



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