CES for Expedition PCB (v2007)
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Duration: 2 Days
Pricing: 3600 CNY
Course Part Number: 236552
Course Overview
Description
CES is a Constraint Editor System, which gives you the ability to define and refine design constraints in a common environment that is accessible from many Mentor Graphics Corporation front-end and back-end design systems. This course is designed to cover all the necessary skills required to use CES efficiently and effectively in DxDesigner-Expedition and Design Capture/Design View-Expedition flows. The labs in the course allow you to gain hands-on experience with the tool, defining both mechanical and high-speed constraints to meet today’s challenging PCB designs.You will learn how to
- Define the main concepts and constraints hierarchy of CES.
- Enable CES as a constraint system in DxDesigner-Expedition and Design Capture/Design View-Expedition flows.
- Find and filter data in the design database.
- Navigate and manipulate the constraints hierarchy.
- Use the spreadsheets, toolbars, preferences, and options efficiently.
- Reuse already defined constraints in other designs using Constraint Templates.
- Partition the design data using Net Classes, Constraint Classes and Schemes.
- Set up mechanical constraints such as trace widths, via assignments and clearances.
- Assign physical high-speed constraints including minimum and maximum delays, matched delays, delay formulas, custom and complex topologies, differential pairs, and parallelism rules to nets or group of nets.
- Auto-route the constrained nets and evaluate the routing results.
Hands-On Labs
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using CES software. Hands-on lab topics include:
- Enabling CES and synchronizing databases in the following design flows.
- Dx Designer to Expedition Flo
- Design Capture/Design View to Expedition Flow
- User Interface
- Customizing the Windows Display
- Using the CES Browser and the Spreadsheets
- Editing Data in Spreadsheets
- Interfacing with the PCB Data
- Setting Up Mechanical Constraints
- Creating Schemes
- Creating and Populating Net Classes
- Setting up Trace and Via Properties
- Setting up Clearance Rule
- Setting up Z-Clearances
- Setting up Physical High-Speed Constraints
- Creating hierarchy of Constraint Classes
- Assigning Standard, Custom, and Complex Topologies for a Net
- Setting up Differential Pair Constraints
- Setting up Maximum and Minimum delays, delay formulas, and Matched Length groups.
- Setting up Parallelism Rule
- Auto route the nets constrained with both mechanical and high-speed requirements.
- Constraints Reuse
- Importing Constraint Templates
- Testing Constraint Templates
- Assigning Constraint Templates
Audience
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PCB Design Engineers
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PCB layout personnel
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Signal Integrity Engineers
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Design managers
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Project Managers
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with concepts of PCB design and technology
- Familiarity with Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP or UNIX operating systems
Key Topics
- CES Overview
- CES in the flow
- CES User Interface
- Net Classes and Schemes
- Setting up Mechanical Constraints
- Constraint Classes
- Net Properties and Differential Pairs
- Delays and Parallelism
- Constraint Templates