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.

PCB Innovative Technologies

EDN Innovation AwardMentor Graphics offers an unrivaled portfolio of leading-edge PCB design technologies that provide real-world value in the world of High-Speed Design, Design for Manufacturing, Advanced Layout and Routing, and more. Learn More about PCB Innovative Technologies

PCB Design Tasks

Solutions for common PCB design tasks:

PADS 9.0 Evaluation Software

PADS software unites quick schematic definition with powerful layout, routing, and simulation tools in an affordable, proven flow. 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.

HyperLynx Evaluation Software

HyperLynx evaluation software includes a step-by-step approach that will show you how to predict and eliminate signal integrity and EMC problems early, and verify your layout prior to manufacturing. See How

PADS I/O Designer Demo

This demo shows how I/O Designer can help reduce design time and make the physical FPGA on board integration a concurrent and automated process. Using I/O Designer in the process and iterating between the... View Product Demo

Mentor Graphics HyperLynx PI (Power Integrity) Wins the 2010 DesignVision Award for System Modeling and Simulation.
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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.

PCB Design Resources

PCB Techpubs

Power Integrity in Systems Design: Part 1

This paper discusses the fundamental requirements of power integrity (PI), and the most important concept used in PI, the network impedance. It answers the questions commonly asked by digital designers... View Techpub

BGA Breakouts and Routing

This book presents a number of studies and solutions for addressing these challenges. View Techpub

Fast, Robust S-parameter Modeling in HyperLynx GHz

The HyperLynx product suite from Mentor Graphics leads the market in mainstream signal integrity tools because of its intuitive and easy to use interface combined with its accurate and robust simulation... View Techpub

Accurate, Multi-GBPS Serial Channel Design Solutions for the Entire Design Team

This document describes of the advantages of deploying HyperLynx to meet the increasingly complex challenges of high speed channel design. An overview is provided of the advanced analysis technology. Finally... View Techpub

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Mentor PCB Design Systems: Timing Is Everything

Technology Overview

Work more efficiently, cut costs, and bring more competitive products to market faster with Mentor PCB Design Software. View Video

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BGA Book

PCB innovator and thought leader Charles Pfeil offers his book, BGA Breakouts and Routing Learn More

Where To Buy PADS

PADS solutions are available worldwide through a global network of value-added resellers. View Locations

Service Bureaus

Looking for companies that can design or fabricate boards for you? Consult one of our PADS Service Bureaus. View Locations

From the Blogs

Why Valor???

John Isaac's Blog

Many of you have heard that Mentor just completed the acquisition of Valor.  Mentor feels it will provide huge benefits for the industry.  Now Mentor is the first EDA vendor to be able to provide a design…View Blog Post

Something big is on the horizon

What Do I Know?

I have been very busy the last couple of weeks working on a fun project that will be part of a major announcement that we will be making at Apex.  I cannot disclose much at the moment, but Mentor will be…View Blog Post

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