Reducing Design Cost & Time With Concurrent DFM Verification

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Overview

The hand-off between design and manufacturing is rarely seamless. Inevitably, the manufacturer finds issues that will result in increased cost or lower yield. If you’re lucky, they’ll show you the problem areas and give you a chance to fix them – this is time-consuming and error-prone, but at least keeps you in control of your design. In other cases, the manufacturer will elect to make the ‘fixes’ themselves to save time, improving manufacturability to the detriment of product performance (e.g. with high-speed multi-gigabit interconnect). Instituting a process of DFM verification concurrent to the board layout will significantly reduce the time between finding and fixing a manufacturability issue, minimize costly prototype re-spins, and result in products that perform their desired function. Mentor’s DFM verification solution plugs directly into your existing design process, integrating with your CAD system and maintaining communications and rule sets from manufacturing to optimize your design before the first prototype.

See a live, full demonstration of vSure along with open Q&A at the end of the web seminar.

What You Will Learn

  • An improved methodology for manufacturability verification that can easily be integrated into your current flow
  • The latest updates to the industry-leading solution for DFM validation
  • How to reduce design cycles and improve product quality by concurrently verifying for manufacturability

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Ernie Frohring

Ernie joined Trilogic, Inc, a leader in design automation software sales and support, in 1994 after a 20 year career in electronic design and instrumentation, specializing in emulators and logic analyzers. Since then he has leveraged his knowledge of hardware instrumentation to become experienced in the software tools used for electronic design. He has worked with various PCB layout, schematic capture, analog simulation, and signal integrity analysis tools, and is especially interested in the integration of these tools into a design environment. He currently specializes in high speed design, teaching classes, doing presentations, and working one-on-one with customers using the EDA tools from Mentor Graphics. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 with Bachelors & Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering. His hobbies include chasing Total Solar Eclipses to interesting parts of the world.

Who Should Attend

  • CAD management with time and cost objectives
  • NPI engineers seeking to achieve first pass manufacturability
  • PCB designers trying to efficiently integrate manufacturing constraints into their design process

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Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps