DxDesigner for Expedition PCB Flow

Course Highlights

Using the DxDesigner tools suite, you will gain proficiency in project management with Dashboard, schematic capture with DxDesigner, part selection using DxDatabook™ and much more. You will also learn how to prepare your final schematic for interfacing with the Mentor Graphics Expedition PCB layout tool.

You will learn how to

• Create flat and hierarchical schematic designs using DxDesigner proficiently
• Place wires and buses in the design to create net connections
• Search, select, and verify parts used in your design using DxDataBook
• Create symbols for your schematics through a variety of methods, including the Symbol Wizard
• Effectively build intelligence into your design using properties
• Compile, package and export your schematic to Expedition PCB for place and route
• Use CES to create and assign constraints to your design and pass that information to Expedition

Hands-on labs

• Creating a project and setting up projects in Dashboard and DxDesigner
• Configuring DxDesigner
• Schematic creation for flat and hierarchical designs
• Symbol graphics creation
• Adding properties to symbols and schematics
• Design Reuse
• Net label cross-referencing
• Interfacing to Expedition PCB layout tool
• Setting constraints with CES
• A student design challenge that pulls together all aspects of the tool discussed during class