PCB Systems Design Solutions

Addressing PCB Design Complexities

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.

IO Designer Product Demo

Using I/O Designer in the process and iterating between the FPGA and PCB design flows enables the designers to focus on performance optimization and minimizing the manufacturing costs. View Today

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

Technology Leadership Awards

Enter the most prestigious contest in PCB - The Technology Leadership Awards. Submit your design today!

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

Opening Eyes on Fiber Weave and CAF

The signal channels that link high speed processors to memory and various other peripherals, are limited by the inherent characteristics of the printed circuit board. These are what ultimately connect information... View Techpub

The Developing Technologies of Integrated Optical Waveguides in Printed Circuits

High Density Interconnect (HDI) printed circuits are now being designed in ever-increasing quantities for very high speed applications. The challenge of opto-electronics and integration of photonics into... View Techpub

Establishing Confidence in PDN Simulation

A powerful signal integrity analysis tool must be flexible, easy to use and integrated into an existing EDA framework and design flow. In addition, it is important for the tool to be accurate enough. This... View Techpub

Measuring the Performance of Equalized Serial Data Links Across the Design Flow

For advanced signaling over high-loss channels, designs today are using equalization and several new measurement methods to evaluate the performance of the link. Both simulation and measurement tools support... 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

PCB Matters

Power to the People!

Earlier this year we launched HyperLynx 8.0. One of the major aims of this launch was to enable accessible Power Integrity analysis to engineers.  The general belief is that, although there will always…View Blog Post

Happy Holden's Blog

New Chapters for the HDI HANDBOOK

Hopefully, you have taken the opportunity to download my free E-book, the HDI HANDBOOK. NOW is your chance to tell me what would make interesting reading for FUTURE chapters in the SECOND EDITION of the…View Blog Post

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