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Try PADS ES Suite
Quickly define and complete your PCB designs
Quickly define and complete your PCB designs with the world’s most powerful desktop design environment, the PADS Engineering Station (ES) suite. This licensed evaluation software is fully functional and yours to try for free, for 30 days, with no limitation.
HyperLynx
HyperLynx SI is renowned for its intuitive user interface and extreme ease of use. However, to understand its technical depth, you need to see HyperLynx SI in action.
This ten-part video demonstration provides a guided tour of HyperLynx SI. Each chapter takes an in-depth look at a different signal-integrity challenge, showing you how to run a detailed, step-by-step analysis, identify problems, apply corrections, and validate results.
The entire QuickTour takes 2-1/2 hours, but you can skip around at will.
I/O Designer
I/O Designer is the leading FPGA and PCB integration design automation solution. Discover the ease of design and communication while eliminating the barriers between FPGA and PCB flows and design organizations.
ODB++ Inside Translator
The ODB++ Inside Translator takes proprietary data from Cadence Allegro® and outputs an ODB++ file, which can then be used within any application that supports the format, such as the Mentor Graphics vSure DFM verification software.
Design Kits
Mentor Graphics has teamed up with several vendors to provide the following design kits and reference designs to accompany industry-leading high-speed design and PCB layout tools. These vendor specific designs provide Mentor customers with faster design implementation, decreasing time to market and reduced design iterations.
Multi-gigabit design kits enable easy simulation analysis, implementation of multi-gigabit technologies, and allow engineers to quickly get started simulating.
Try LP Wizard
Try LP Wizard for free, online. Immediately.
Auto-generate CAD Land Pattern library parts from component dimensions in just a few minutes with accuracy and completeness using LP Wizard. Use IPC default rules or define your personal custom rules. Support for 15 different CAD tools.
LP Viewer
Share CAD Libraries for free with LP Viewer
Use LP Viewer is used to quickly search and locate the correct Land Pattern that matches your component dimensions or manufacturer’s case code information or your personal corporate part number.
PADS Viewer
Use the PADS free viewer to view databases and designs from PADS Logic or PADS Layout.
ODB++ Viewer
The ODB++ Viewer enables you to view all ODB++ format files. The most intelligent format for the PCB industry, ODB++ provides optimized data exchange between design and manufacture.
The ODB++ format is an open, public-domain format capturing all PCB design, assembly and fabrication knowledge into a single, unified, expandable database.
visECAD Viewer
The visECAD Viewer gives read only access to complete schematic and layout design data in an easy to use Windows application.
IBIS Model Development
Download Free Visual IBIS Editor for Windows. This tool does syntax checking, creates model templates, views waveforms, and serves as a text editor and more.
The Visual IBIS Editor is a program for creating, editing, verifying, and maintaining IBIS (I/O Buffer Information Specification) device models. Anyone who uses or creates IBIS models will benefit from using this editor, regardless of whether or not they own any of Mentor's HyperLynx and ICX products.
Free Browsers
Free browsers are available for customers who currently use Expedition and Boardstation. PCB Browser - for Board Station RE and Expection PCB - and Design Capture browsers are availalbe. Accept the terms of the license agreement and download your free browsers today.