CES for Expedition PCB

Categories: Expedition

This Course covers all the necessary skills required to use CES efficiently and effectively in DxDesigner-Expedition flow. View course highlights ↓

Scheduled classes

Date	Location	Time	Language	Price
Jun 18–192013	Wilsonville Oregon	9–5 PM PDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Jun 25–262013	Meudon France	9–5 PM CEST	French	1,300 EUR	Register
Jun 27–282013	Singapore Singapore	9–5 PM SGT	English	1,000 USD	Register
Jul 11–122013	Marlborough Massachusetts	9–5 PM EDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Jul 15–162013	Herzliya Israel	9–5 PM IDT	English	4,048 ILS	Register
Jul 18–192013	Munich Germany	9–5 PM CEST	German	1,300 EUR	Register
Jul 18–192013	Longmont Colorado	9–5 PM MDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Jul 30–Aug 22013	Online	8–2 PM PDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Aug 15–162013	Fremont California	9–5 PM PDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Sep 12–132013	Munich Germany	9–5 PM CEST	German	1,300 EUR	Register
Oct 1–42013	Online	8–2 PM PDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Oct 10–112013	Marlborough Massachusetts	9–5 PM EDT	English	1,400 USD	Register
Oct 16–172013	Meudon France	5–1 PM CEST	French	1,300 EUR	Register
Oct 24–252013	Munich Germany	9–5 PM CEST	German	1,300 EUR	Register
Dec 4–52013	Meudon France	9–5 PM CET	French	1,300 EUR	Register
Dec 5–62013	Munich Germany	9–5 PM CET	German	1,300 EUR	Register
Jan 16–172014	Munich Germany	9–5 PM CET	German	1,300 EUR	Register
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Course Highlights

CES for Expedition® PCB will help you gain the ability to define and refine design constraints in a common environment that is accessible from many Mentor Graphics front-end and back-end design systems. Hands-on lab exercises will reinforce lecture and discussion topics under the guidance of our industry expert instructors. This course is offered both on Windows and Linux platforms. This course included a module on iCES.

You will learn how to

Define the main concepts and constraints hierarchy of CES
Enable CES as a constraint system in DxDesigner-Expedition
Find and filter data in the design database
Navigate and manipulate the constraints hierarchy
Use the spreadsheets, toolbars, preferences, and options efficiently
Reuse already defined constraints in other designs using Constraint Templates
Partition the design data using Net Classes, Constraint Classes, and Schemes
Set up mechanical constraints such as trace widths, via assignments, and clearances
Assign physical high-speed constraints including minimum and maximum delays, matched delays, delay formulas, custom and complex topologies, differential pairs, and parallelism rules to nets or group of nets
Auto-route the constrained nets and evaluate the routing results

Hands-on labs

Enabling CES and synchronizing databases in the following design flows
- DxDesigner to Expedition Flow
User Interface
- Customizing the Windows Display
- Using the CES Browser and the Spreadsheets
- Editing Data in Spreadsheets
- Interfacing with the PCB Data
Setting Up Mechanical Constraints
- Creating Schemes
- Creating and Populating Net Classes
- Setting up Trace and Via Properties
- Setting up Clearance Rules
- Setting up Z-Clearances
Setting up Physical High-Speed Constraints
- Creating hierarchy of Constraint Classes
- Assigning Standard, Custom, and Complex Topologies for a Net
- Setting up Differential Pair Constraints
- Setting up Maximum and Minimum delays, delay formulas, and Matched Length groups
- Setting up Parallelism Rules
- Auto route the nets constrained with both mechanical and high-speed requirements
Constraints Reuse
- Importing Constraint Templates
- Testing Constraint Templates
- Assigning Constraint Templates

Key topics

CES Overview
CES in the flow
CES User Interface
Net Classes and Schemes
Setting up Mechanical Constraints
Constraint Classes
Net Properties and Differential Pairs
Delays and Parallelism
Constraint Templates