Expedition PCB Advanced

Course Highlights

You will learn how to

• Use graphics command to create complex elements
• Use schematic cross-probing to place and examine within a PCB design
• Use advanced placement commands to place, copy and move circuits
• Import and Export IDF files for 3-D modeling
• Use Constraint Editor System™ (CES) Net Class definitions to solve routing problems
• Efficiently work with via and pad definitions and changes
• Define and use Multi Via Objects (MVOs)
• More efficiently use inter-active routing commands
• Use CES to define electrical constraints and classes
• Route using electrical constraints
• Work in a multiple designer environment with XtremePCB™
• Define MicroVias and route using blind and buried definitions
• Use FabLink™ XE functionality in a PCB design or the Panel Editor
• Use the Report Writer to document your designs
• Create and Autoroute bus paths, shielded buses, and match length buses
• Use Variant Manager to define variants

Hands-on labs

• Creating complex board outlines and contours
• Placement from schematics (DxDesigner® or Design Capture™), placement utilities, and Circuit Move and Copy
• IDF Import and Export
• Using CES Net Classes to solve routing problems
• Fanout and padstack processing
• Interactive routing
• Physical Constraint Classes and Templates
• Defining and routing Signal Topology
• Defining and routing Differential Pairs
• Defining and routing signal length constraints
• Defining and resolving crosstalk and parallelism
• Working in a multi-designer environment with XtremePCB
• Definitions and routing using MicroVias
• Using FabLink XE in Expedition PCB and the Panel Editor
• Defining report documentation using the Report Writer
• Using the Topology Planning and Routing tools
• Creating fabrication drawings using Drawing Editor
• Defining variants using Variant Manager