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
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:
- Design Creation
- Circuit Simulation
- Layout & Routing
- Library & Data Management
- Fabrication Assembly & Test
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.
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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
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
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
The cost of reliability - Just ask Toyota
In the automotive industry we have always talked about the cost of reliability in terms of the warantee expense that they incur when they have a problem. You can justify a lot of tool and designer expense…View Blog Post
User Groups – Get Involved!
For those of us involved in the EDA industry, we’re all familiar with user group meetings. It’s a time to get together with fellow users of specific vendors tools, network, and learn from one another.
Being…View Blog Post
News & Press
- Mentor Graphics HyperLynx PI (Power Integrity) Wins the 2010 DesignVision Award for System Modeling and Simulation
- Mentor Graphics Enhances Signal and Power Integrity Solution with Full-Wave 3D Analysis
- Mentor Graphics Enhances Signal and Power Integrity Solution with Full-Wave 3D Analysis
- Kontron AG Expands its Mentor Graphics Expedition PCB Environment with HyperLynx Power Integrity Solution
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