Optimizing Electronics Systems Using FPGA/PCB Co-Design Web Seminar
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Overview
Configurable FPGAs give engineers the flexibility to optimize functionality and performance in parallel with PCB design. Unfortunately, this flexibility comes at a price extra time and effort required to create and synchronize the FPGA symbols and pin assignments within the PCB environment increase the risk of errors, and threaten to undo the desired optimization at a system level. Expedition Enterprise provides fully integrated FPGA and PCB co-design by supporting concurrent, top-down FPGA design in conjunction with the PCB by providing bi-directional communication between the FPGA and PCB design environments. The end result of this FPGA/PCB co-design and optimization is increased productivity, reduced design cycle time, optimized system performance, and reduced board routing congestion and/or layer count.
What You Will Learn
- How to align performance objectives of FPGA(s) and PCB while still meeting your schedule
- How to implement advanced I/O optimization to save time and eliminate manual errors
About the Presenter
David Brady
Dave Brady is the Business Development Manager in the Board System Division at Mentor Graphics. Dave’s focus is accelerating PCB design creation processes. Dave has been with Mentor Graphics for 20+ years and has worked to develop and promote ASIC, FPGA and PCB design solutions. Before joining Mentor Graphics Dave was an application engineer for one of the original synthesis tool developers: Trimeter Technologies. Dave began his career with the Northrop Research and Development Center focusing on custom IC design.
Who Should Attend
- PCB engineers
- FPGA engineers
- Engineering management
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