PADS Router

(Formerly FIRE™)

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  • Interactive route editor
  • Provides a shape-based, gridless routing architecture with intelligent place and route controls
  • Offers a customizable user interface
  • Incorporates automatic adherence to component entry rules for improved manufacturability
  • Supplies multiple plow modes, for the look and control of manual routing
  • Automatically follows design rules entered at the schematic or PCB level
  • Employs any-angle routing for cleaner routing of high pin-count packages
  • Provides controls for routing dense designs according to manufacturers' rules for vias at SMDs
  • Post-route design verification checks
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