Board Station RE
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Duration: 3 Days
Pricing: $2,100 USD
Course Part Number: 207000
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The award winning Board Station PCB placement-and-routing editing environment provides the most comprehensive and technologically advanced tools for today's PCB designers. Education Services' Board Station RE course can help you gain the skills necessary to maximize your usage of the Board Station RE router and realize its full impact on your design process. Lecture modules guide you through the various concepts underlying state-of-the-art routing techniques and specific aspects of the Board Station RE tool. Hands-on lab exercises will reinforce lecture topics and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.You will learn how to
- Utilize the Board Station RE user interface on Windows 2000/XP or UNIX platforms
- Set rules for DRC using Mentor Graphics' Constraint Editor System in interactive and automatic routing
- Route designs either interactively or automatically
- Generate interactive and automatic routing parameters
- Verify designs using signal integrity constraints
- Place and relocate parts to improve routing
- Transfer designs between Board Station and Board Station RE
- Correct problems in placement, routing, incorrect delay, and parallelism
- Read and understand various Board Station RE reports
Hands-On Labs
Each course module contains self-paced lab exercises providing hands-on experience with the Board Station RE tool and PCB routing concepts. These exercises include:- The UNIX and Windows NT user interface
- Transferring designs between Board Station and Board Station RE
- Placement of PCB components
- Interactive and automatic routing
- Setting and verifying DRC constraintsusing the Constraint Editor System
- Correct hazardous PCB layout conditions
- Setting parallelism and delay constraints
Audience
- PCB layout engineers and technicians
- Managers and engineers responsible for implementing CAD tools
- Other personnel requiring a knowledge of interactive and automatic PCB layout and routing
Prerequisites
- Experience in PCB layout using BoardStation LAYOUT
- An overall understanding of the PCB design process
- Familiarity with UNIX or Windows 2000/XP