Board Station RE
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Duration: 3 Days
Pricing: $2,100 USD
Course Part Number: 207000
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Course Overview
The award winning Board Station PCB placement-and-routing editing environment provides the most comprehensive and technologically advanced tools for today's PCB designers. The Board Station RE course will help you gain the skills necessary to maximize your usage of the Board Station RE placement and routing environment 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 or UNIX platforms
- Set rules for DRC 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
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using the Board Station RE tool and PCB routing concepts. Hands-on lab topics include:
- Transferring designs between Board Station and Board Station RE
- Placement of PCB components
- Interactive and automatic routing
- Setting and verifying DRC constraints
- Correcting hazardous PCB layout conditions
- Setting parallelism and delay constraints
Prerequisites
- Experience in PCB layout using BoardStation Layout
- An overall understanding of the PCB design process
Key Topics
Overview
- What is Board Station RE?
- Invoking Board Station RE
- Saving Board Station RE Data
User Interface
- Board Station RE Interface
- Ways to Execute Commands
- Panning, Zooming and other Viewing Commands
- Operational Modes
- Selection Methods
- Display Control Settings
- Locating Objects
- Viewing Report and Log Files
- Printing
- Online Help
- Using SupportNet
Placement
- Place Parts and Cells Options
- Cross Probing to Other Board Station tools
- Placement Settings and Commands
- Protecting Components
Routing Configuration With CES
- What is the Constraint Editor System (CES)?
- DA/BA to Board Station RE Data Flow Overview
- Invoking CES from DA/BA, LAYOUT and RE
- Synchronization in DA/BA to Board Station RE Flow
- CES Browser and Spreadsheets
- Creating a Schemes and Net Classes
- Setting up Trace Properties
- Creating Clearance Rules
- Routing Control Parameters
- Creating a Rule Area
Interactive Routing
- Interactive Routing Commands
- Plow Modes
- Adding and Changing Vias
- Additional Routing Commands
- Highlighting Nets
- Protecting Nets
- Measuring Distance
- Creating Area Fills
- Converting Plane Shapes to Graphics
Automatic Routing
- Auto Route Dialog Box
- Defining a Routing Pass
- Creating Route Schemes
- Auto Route Report
- Auto Route Options
- Auto Routing Strategies
Design Rule Check
- Placement Online DRC
- Review Online DRC Hazards
- Batch DRC
- Review Batch DRC Hazards
- Locating and Repairing Hazards
- DRC Windows
Signal Integrity Routing With CES
- Review-Via Usage, Layer Restrictions, Trace Widths, Clearances, Rule Areas
- Net Topology
- Delays and Lengths
- Matched Length
- Differential Pairs
- Parallelism
- Stub Length, Via Count and Jumper Control
- Delay Formulas
- Signal Integrity Routing Strategy
Microvias
- Microvia Technology
- What is a Microvia Design?
- Layer Stackup Definitions
- Microvia Clearances
- Microvias per Net Class
- Via Under Pad Consideration
- Auto Routing Strategies
- Interactive Microvias
- Routing Tips