Facilitating Virtual Prototyping During the Engineering Process Web Seminar

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Overview

Analysis and verification have taken the place of the traditional (physical) prototyping approach that has stood the industry well for many years. While the promise of simulation is reduced time and cost associated with design re-spins, most simulators aren’t integrated and are difficult to use, leading to tool specialization and associated process bottlenecks. The Expedition Enterprise flow enables engineers to easily carry out virtual prototyping for logical circuit function and board performance (e.g. signal and power integrity) from their desktop. The simulators are integrated throughout the flow, from design creation to constraint definition to board layout, minimizing iterations during the design process and improving overall product quality.

What You Will Learn

  • A single-schematic approach to mixed-signal circuit simulation with easy-to-use waveform results
  • An improved process for signal & power integrity analysis that starts at the design concept stage and is integrated all the way to final layout verification
 

Who Should Attend

  • Design engineers looking to eliminate bottlenecks in their design process
  • Simulation specialists working to improve collaboration with design engineers

About the Presenters

Presenter Image 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.

Presenter Image Steve McKinney

Steven McKinney is a business development manager for Mentor Graphic's Board System Division where he supports Mentor's PCB analysis technologies which include tools for Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, Thermal and EMC design. Steven has previously held roles in technical marketing at Mentor Graphics, specializing in signal integrity and EMC analysis tools and educating the engineering community on signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC design issues. Prior to working for Mentor, Steven was a signal integrity engineer at Dell Computer developing server hardware. Steven received his BSEE and MSEE from North Carolina State University.

Technical Instructions

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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