PCB Design Software & Tools

Addressing PCB Design Applications

PCB designs grow increasingly complex and challenging with each technological advance. Add globally dispersed design and manufacturing teams to the mix, and the collaboration hurdles make projects difficult at best. PCB design software helps companies meet market demands, facilitate global collaboration, accelerate time-to-market, increase profit margins, and optimize/improve PCB reliability.

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DxDesigner Blogs

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Are your PCB design practices making money for you?

PCB design represents 31% of all product development costs. Using our six keys to PCB excellence, you can get your product to market faster while reducing costs. Learn more

PADS ES Suite Evaluation

Quickly define and complete PCB designs with the PADS ES suite. This licensed evaluation software is fully functional and yours to try for free, for 30 days, with no limitation. Evaluate Today

Design Kits

Mentor Graphics has teamed up with several vendors to provide design kits and reference designs to accompany industry-leading high-speed design and PCB layout tools.
Expedition Enterprise
PADS

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Training

We have training courses available for PCB engineers in our training centers around the world, online, or at your site.

PCB Design Flows

Expedition Enterprise

Designing a product requires more than just a great PCB layout tool – you need tightly integrated PCB design software. Expedition Enterprise provides this high level of integration, enabling all team members to work collaboratively and more efficiently.

PADS

PADS PCB design solutions are created for designers by designers. They cover the entire design flow, from design definition through signal integrity analysis, functional simulation, layout and outputs to manufacturing.

Board Station

The global business environment drives increasing pressure on Board Station® customers to stay competitive. As a result, companies need to get their products to market faster and improve productivity while designing more complex products.

White Papers

How Successful OEM's Improve Product Quality while Saving Time and Money with PCB NPI

This paper identifies how Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and smoother handoffs between design and manufacturing avoid costly problems and wasted effort during NPI, resulting in improved efficiency and PCB... View White Paper

High Speed PCB Layout: Physical Design Issues of Highspeed Interfaces

Moore’s law, applied to data rates, has pushed PCB circuits so fast that the layout becomes part of the circuit. In designs such as DDR3 and PCIe, the fastest memory and high-speed serial performance... View White Paper

Adopting the Library and Data Management Solutions of Best-in-Class Companies in the Electronics Industry

The design of electronic products is driven by continuous changes and data management challenges, which companies somehow manage. This paper emphasizes the criticality of library and data management from... View White Paper