Flex Technology

Flex Design

Designing a flexible circuit board requires unique functionality compared to conventional rigid boards. For instance, flex designers must consider the strength requirement against the bend. You need efficient methods of creating complex board outlines and routing within complex polygons.

Mentor Graphics' Flex Technology offers a total solution for flexible circuit board design:

  • Import and create complex board outlines from mechanical CAD automatically
  • Employ rich routing capabilities that support bending (e.g. routing along the board outline, aligning traces, and joining traces at curves)
  • Place parts at irregular angles easily
  • Utilize drawing capabilities specific to flexible circuit boards

Key Features

  • Ensure all trace and pad junctions have teardrops, including T-junctions
  • Easily convert imported DXF data into the board outline
  • Use free-angle routing with arcs for complex polygons
  • Push and shove with arcs
  • Trace tapers (neck downs)
  • Perform Design-Rule-Check (DRC) for missing arcs & teardrops
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