IPDS ESD Dissipative High Speed Probes
IPDS high speed probes – precision moulded with ESD dissipative materials to provide maximum protection to the CITS

Speedstack Online Library
Curated materials library from official material partners gives OEM PCB Technologists
and designers access to the latest material types

Speedstack Loss v Frequency
Until 2017 Speedstack purely modeled impedance. Versions of Speedstack Si past this date included
built in insertion loss and roughness modeling with the proven Si9000e field solver engine.

Polar YouTube Channel
Polar's YouTube channel offers introductory and educational collateral through the medium of video.
For viewers with limited YouTube access at work or with terrirorial restrictions the same content is
available to stream direct from the Polar website.

Import / Export industry standard IPC-2581 Rev B files
As an IPC consortium member Polar provides Speedstack data in IPC-2581 B format from 2018

Si9000e – Simonovich-Cannonball-Huray roughness compensation
Huray roughness modeling until this point was only valuable to fabricators with SEM imaging of surface roughness.
The Simonovich-Cannonball method allows input of Rz to give a viable empirical model without the need for SEM data.

Si9000 – Monte Carlo analysis
One of the benefits of a fast field solver is the ability to perform production simulation. Built in Monte-Carlo
analysis in Si8000m and Si9000e offers real world production yield simulation for transmission lines.

Speedstack Structure View
A grid view added to the Speedstack editor makes navigation of complex stacks fast and easy.

TRC Plus – TDR View
The advent of UHDI traces of 30um and below leads to significant DC resistance in TDR traces. This in turn leads
to correlation errors between measured and modeled characteristic impedance if not correctly de-embedded.
TheTDR view in TRC Plus allows designers to estimate if DC resistance needs removing before correlating results.
(This is done in the measurement system with LPE - Launch Point Extrapolation - or DC resistance compensation)

Speedstack – Calculated Back Drills
High layer count ultra high speed boards can suffer reflections and signal distortion from via stubs. Backdrilling the
copper from the stub significantly enhances high speed signal integrity – but drill too far and the board is scrap,
so Speedstack clearly documents the Must Cut and Must Not Cut layers for each drill type.

Si9000e – Embedded Trace Substrate (ETS) structures
New additive fabrication techniques mean that the trace can be embedded in the substrate. The ETS
structures added in Si8000m and Si9000e 2025 cater for this with the traditional Polar ease of use.

Toneohm 950A
The Toneohm Short Circuit locator is a thread that runs throughout Polar's 50 year history - tracking
down those hard to find short circuits with the "Toneohm Sound" The 950A is the latest incarnation,
with automatic plane stimulus switching and an intuitive touch screen colour display; its "retro" looks
a nod to the fact that since day 1 - user interface and ease of use have been a Polar signature.

SiExcel with Insertion Loss
SiExcel has until 2026 only connected with Polar impedance field solvers. The 2026 edition extends the Excel interface to support insertion
loss calculation with the full suite of roughness modeling tools. It also supports operation under both 32 and 64 bit Microsoft Excel^(TM)

Speedstack Extensions – Apps to Extend the Functionality of Speedstack
Many customers export Speedstack XML files for pre and post processing –the 2026 edition of Speedstack brings this
capability inside Speedstack to make the process of running script extensions a more seamless and integrated process.