Constraint Driven High Speed Design using Expedition Flow

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Overview

This session will discuss how effective high-speed software solutions must handle increasingly complex boards, as well as the increasing number of constraints that are required to ensure that boards work right the first time.

During this webinar, through the use of real-world examples, a design constraint will be carried through the design process, from initial concept (design topology and driver exploration), through physical adherence (constraint-driven routing), and final full-board verification. The presentation and demo will be based on constraint management, routing, and verification solutions within the Expedition Enterprise design flow.

Increasing bus speeds, faster switching speeds, and clock speeds that continue to increase at 40% a year are all causes of high-speed design problems-and hence causes of concern to you, the PCB designer.

Modern printed circuit boards pose two critical problems for hardware engineers and PCB designers:

A growing volume of high-speed interconnects as a percentage of the total system. Exponentially increasing design complexity associated with new bus and interconnect technologies like DDR, DDR2, PCI Express, HyperTransport, SATA, etc. While advances in these interconnect technologies enable higher performance and increased system bandwidth, these gains come at a design cost. Almost without exception, they carry additional educational requirements and design techniques.

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy has 39 years of multiple disciplines in the PCB Design arena.

This includes PCB layout, electro/mechanical design, library management, and defining corporate process flows. His past 22 years have been spent here at Mentor Graphics as a PCB Application Engineer with a focus on understanding and supporting the many needs of the ECAD and MCAD community here in Silicon Valley.

Who Should Attend

  • Engineers and Engineering Managers who deal daily with High Speed Concerns
  • PCB Layout designers, regardless of which tool you use
 

What You Will Learn

  • Constraint management
  • Advanced constraint definition
  • High-speed rule definition
  • High-speed routing

    ...and much more!
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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

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