PADS I/O Designer

I/O Designer

SHORTEN YOUR TIME TO MARKET:
Optimize PCB Designs with PADS I/O Designer

Adding PADS I/O Designer across your system design flow leverages FPGA flexibility.

Business Benefits

Business Benefits

• Shorten time to market
• Increase profit margin
• Reduce PCB manufacturing costs
• Improve PCB Performance
• Improve PCB Reliability

Design Flow

Design Flow Advantages

• Reduce design cycle time
• Reduce PCB routing congestion
• Increase PCB performance
• Improve PCB reliability
• Synchronize design units
• Eliminate PCB re-spin risk
• Reduce trace length by up to 50%
• Minimize trace cross-over
• Minimize PCB Vias structures
• Minimize mechanical and electrical failure points

Product Options

PADS I/O Designer Family

• PADS I/O Designer - Standard package
• PCB View - Option
• PCB Optimization - Option
• Multi-FPGA Optimization - Option

Tech Papers

• NEW! Leveraging FPGA in PCB System Designs: Optimizing Product Profit Margin
• Addressing Integration Problems in a Complex FPGA/PCB/High-speed Design Environment Using the PADS Flow
• Who Defines the FPGA Interface?
• The Benefits of FPGAs: Are they consumed by the obstacles of integrating FPGAs on a PCB?
• I/O Designer -- Uniting Disparate HDL, FPGA and PCB Design Flows
• When FPGA I/O Design Becomes a Necessity

Recent Press

• Mentor Graphics Accelerates FPGA / PCB Design Collaboration with New I/O Designer Product Targeted at PADS Users

Journal Articles

• A Fundamentally Different Approach to FPGA I/O Design - (Xcell Journal, Q2 2006)
• A New Way to Design with FPGA - FPGA Journal (Sept. 2007)
• FPGA I/O Design is (also) a PCB Problem - FPGA Journal (Mar. 2007)
• Integrating PCB and FPGA Constraints - FPGA Journal (Aug. 2006)
• It's Not All About the FPGA Anymore - FPGA Journal (Sept. 2005)

Success Stories

• Astron Reduces Time to Market with I/O Designer, (Apr. 2005)