Constraint Editor System
Product Highlights
- Enables a fully integrated, constraint-driven design flow
- Provides identical constraint editing from design entry through PCB layout
- Supplies electrical and physical constraints in a single database and application
- Provides easy to use functions for finding invalid model assignments, model overrides or mismatches between device and model information
Next-Generation PCB Design Constraint Management - article from PCD&M magazine
Benefits
- Helps reduce costs and accelerate time to market by eliminating unnecessary PCB prototypes and re-spins due to miscommunications
- Handles current and future design requirements by giving direct control over the most advanced routing technology in Expedition PCB
- Rules preservation throughout the flow on net renames, connectivity additions/removals, pin and/or gate swaps and stackup changes
- Supports definition and verification of electrical constraints within one environment, simplifying a complex constraint entry process and improving the accuracy of the design
- Easy to use, spreadsheet-based application with numerous productivity enhancements
- Hierarchical Rule Classes and constraint value propagation
- Constraint Templates for applying complex rules across a bus
- Differential Pair Creation through wildcard matching
- Stackup Editor with impedance planning features
