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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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

HyperLynx PI Wins DesignVision Award

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

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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 Best Practices

How's your PCB performance? Hit your stride with our free online assessment. Use this FREE tool to assess your organization’s capabilities relative to the best-in-class. Use our assessment tool

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

Cross Design Team Interconnect Planning

John Park, Business Development Manager and Methodology Architect for Mentor’s System Design Division, discusses the growing interactions among IC, packaging and PCB design flows. View White Paper

Need to Save PCB Design Time? Winning in Electronics by Managing Printed Circuit Board Data

While all industries struggle with time-to-market pressures, this pressure is even more intense in the electronics industry. The speed at which technologies evolve and competitors either introduce new products... View White Paper

Designing Modern 3D Packages with Mixed Technology Content

We are faced with designing extremely high performing packages with mixed technology content such as high speed digital, analog, and RF. At the same time, the density requirements are forcing us to use... View White Paper

Blogs

Fabrication and Assembly Analysis?

Jim Marten's PADS Blog

Do it right the first time – we all first heard this from our parents as kids, and throughout our lives. It’s no different now in our work as electronic design professionals. Do more up front planning,…View Blog Post

Advanced tools mitigates risks with Embedded Passives (EP’s)

PCB Matters

New technology is cool but… with most new processes there are risks to be managed.  Usually new technologies promises/offers higher design performance, lower product costs and or faster design turn around…View Blog Post