IESF Focus: PCB System Design

Minimize Your PCB Iterations Using Simulation and Analysis

Presented By: Keith A. Van Liere, PCB Engineering Manager, Johnson Controls - Automotive Systems Group and Tom Olson, Engineering Manager of Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Johnson Controls, Inc.

Time to market and product costs are critical to any company. In this session, you will learn how PAL – a powerful process developed by Johnson Controls – can allow you to cut time off the overall product development schedule while also reducing product development costs. The Primary Analysis Layout (PAL) process is an in-depth layout phase utilizing floor planning, constraints management, simulation and analysis tools, and intensive reviews.

You will learn how to utilize your available analysis tools and methods to the maximum benefit during initial product layout in ways to eliminate costly re-spins. Input to PAL is included from EMC, Signal Integrity and Timing, and Thermal disciplines. The actual PAL design cycle typically takes longer than traditional methods, but it produces the desired results more quickly, thereby reducing the number of downstream design iterations, the overall time to market and the overall design and development costs.

Managing Expedition libraries in a global enterprise

Presented By: Rollie Copp, Mark Baker, and Roukoz Atallah, Delphi

In an enterprise with engineering design centers scattered around the globe, the distribution of ECAD/EE library information is a challenge. This presentation will discuss the methodology that Delphi developed to ensure that Expedition / DMS libraries throughout all design centers are kept up to date.

Addressing implementation complexity in automotive electronics systems

The car radio became the Cassette/CD/Tuner, and the Cassette/CD/Tuner became the car infotainment system. If there is a constant in electronic design, it’s that products get more complex while the products themselves get smaller. Your organization can no longer develop products in isolated specialty groups. For your company to compete successfully in a global market place, boundaries between design disciplines have to be removed and products must be designed from chip-to-board and on through the full system in a completely integrated system design environment supported by tools that everyone can use. This session will present Mentor’s solution in Electronics Systems Implementation that integrates the entire design flow, and will let you complete better designs in less time.

Managing data for automotive electronics systems development in the enterprise

You know the drill: even the smallest change requires a wheelbarrow full of data and a substantial amount of time validating the integrity of design and library data. As a program managers and team leaders you find it time consuming to check the progress of your product - time that would be better off in more productive activities. The data often has to be retrieved from multiple design and management databases, usually with manual intervention or in resource intense design review meetings, and then packaged so all stakeholders notified and all systems are updated together. The cycle, or takt time, can be significantly reduced by making the library and data management systems more efficient, better integrated and serving management information needs at any point in time. This session is a must if you are responsible for programs, projects or maintaining library and system design data. It will show you how to effectively deal with the complexity of electronics systems design data throughout the development process and the need for native data management systems within the design flow, while integrating with the greater enterprise.

Time: 7:30AM to 7:00PM
Location: Solutions Expo

Mentor Graphics' Board Systems division will present the Expedition Enterprise flow, the world's most widely used enterprise flow for complex PCB systems design. Customers who use Expedition Enterprise achieve best-in-class results, including shorter time to market and lower product costs, with more opportunities to innovate.

Demonstrations will include the entire system design flow, from system design definition and concurrent board design methodologies, through signal and power integrity, EMI analysis, library and data management solutions, through to the Valor tool suite for accelerating New Product Introduction.