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“We’ve been evaluating Board Station XE for a few months now and really like what we see. We are particularly looking forward to getting access to the new functionality so as to shorten design cycle times, improve productivity, reduce production costs, and develop PCBs with new functionality, such as embedded passives.”
Mick Harvey, principal hardware engineer, SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems
Board Station XE enables Board Station customers to meet these challenges. And all while lowering the costs and risks of adopting new technology.
Key Benefits
Shortens Time-to-Market
- Enables simultaneous design for globally dispersed design teams
- Offers integrated multi-discipline design tools for improved design and process efficiency
- Can be rapidly deployed by current Board Station customers
Improves Productivity
- Includes integrated autorouting and correct-by-construction methodology based on industry-leading, AutoActive™ physical design tools
- Facilitates rapid PCB design with innovative RF, Flex, & Embedded Passives technologies
- Offers advanced design capabilities for dynamic plane generation, design reuse, and variants
Reduces Cost and Risk
- Protects investment by utilizing existing Board Station libraries, library development tools, &library management processes
- Minimizes the costs of adopting a new flow by leveraging existing licenses
- Requires only minimal ramp-up & training time
- Co-exists with existing Board Station Flows so it can be deployed incrementally
News & Resources
Industry Articles
Customer Resources
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- " Delta document" - the significant changes introduced in the BSXE2007 release
- " What's New and Cool" - 95 pages of what’s new since the last release
- Product download (includes Classic, RE, and XE Flows)
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Featured Board Station Techpubs
The Benefits of FPGAs: Are they consumed by the obstacles of integrating FPGAs on a PCB?
FPGAs have proven to be a valuable technology in today's electronic industry, offering performance, time-to-market, and cost advantages. Evidence of their pervasiveness is the fact that almost every Printed Circuit Board (PCB) now contains at least one FPGA. But, does the process of putting the FPGA on a PCB compromise those highly valued benefits? This paper examines the move from ASIC to FPGA technology, and the impact of FPGA on board integration today.