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
Mentor 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:
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.
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- Product Demo: PADS Product Demos
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.
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- Board Station XE Brochure (PDF, 600kb)
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
Mentor PCB Design Systems: Timing Is Everything
Technology OverviewWork more efficiently, cut costs, and bring more competitive products to market faster with Mentor PCB Design Software. View Video
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
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
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
News & Press
- Mentor Graphics Signs EDA Direct as New Distributor
- Mentor Graphics Announces 21st Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards Program
- Mentor Graphics Delivers PADS 9.0 Flow Release Featuring the World’s Most Advanced Design Technologies
- Mentor Graphics and Agilent Technologies Win EDN Magazine’s Innovation Award for RF Design Solution
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