Here’s another Tip from Yan Killy, Technical Marketing Engineer:
It is a common practice to use vias to shielding high noise traces. It involves using multiple vias connected to a ground net around the entire high noise trace.
The designer can use “Add Via” command after selecting Ground Net and add them one by one. Doing this manually is time consuming, especially when the trace has a lot of … Read More
Tags: PADS, PADS Tips and Tricks
This weeks tip comes from Yan Killy, technical marketing engineer:
Many times you need to route high current traces. Almost always these wide traces have sense lines that are going to control the circuit.
In Design Rules, setup minimum trace width for the high current net. However, when you start routing the sense line, you want this trace to be thinner. With Advanced Rule Set (ARS option) in PADS, … Read More
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This weeks Tip comes from Andrew Audova in the environmental support group:
What do you do when you launch PADS and get the following message stating “The following product options expire in fewer than 30 days”
This message means that one or more of your licenses will expire in the next 30 days. If you are running on a local/nodelocked license (also known as “mobile compute”), it’s possible … Read More
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Today’s tip is from Bill Tkachuk in CSD. It’s a great way to speed the definition and rule assignment for differential pairs. Give it a try and add any comments for tips you may have for working with diff pairs.
Defining Differential Pairs within PADS Router
Using PADS Router, you can define your Diff Pairs and assign the same rule set to multiple Diff Pairs at once. Using a trick with the Project … Read More
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I visit many customers throughout the year, and read press releases from many of them. I’ve seen some of the largest, toughest designs completed with PADS. But sometime I see great designs that are small. One of the constant business drivers for many customers is miniaturization – getting the same, or usually more functionality in a small size.
One such design that came across my desk recently came … Read More
Tags: PADS Evaluation, PADS
PADS 9.4 was released earlier this week – take a look at the press release here: http://www.mentor.com/company/news/mentor-release-pads-dfm-high-speed-interactive-routing
The new features listed include:
DFM Analysis
Associated Nets
ODB++ Inside
CAM Compare
New advanced licensing controls
Follow Route
New 2D line styles and snap controls
And more…
A couple of these are truly unique to … Read More
This weeks tip comes from Yan Killy, Technical Marketing Engineering, talking about cross probing between your schematic and PADS Layout or Router.
Cross probing from schematic to layout/router can save a lot of time and during the design cycle. It help’s during the placement of components, especially when components on a schematic sheet need to placed near one another on the board. You can select … Read More
The past few months I’ve visited several customers, and they have all had similar comments – their businesses are looking up. The engineers are busy with new designs; some are looking to hire new EE’s and PCB designers. Or, they are busy investigating new technologies to use in upcoming projects. I was unable to visit a couple customers because they were too busy with their current projects. (A … Read More
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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, simulation and analysis, follow good design practices, etc. Are you really doing it though?
As electronic design professionals, we’re done when we get our product manufactured. At the end of … Read More
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We’ve all used Gerber, NC drill, and Excel files for years (decades really) to output our fabrication and assembly data for our PCB’s. These files have worked well, but they can be time consuming to generate, and even more so for the folks at the manufacturers that need to take that data, and prepare it for input to their machines.
The strange thing is, when you send your data files to the manufacturer, … Read More
