Duration: 4 Half Days
Pricing: $1,400 USD
Course Part Number: 233627
Contact us for details about training at your site Course Overview
The CES is a Constraint Editor System, which gives you the ability to define and refine design constraints in a common environment that is accessible from many Mentor Graphics Corporation front-end and back-end design systems. This webcast is designed to cover all the necessary skills required to use CES efficiently and effectively in the Board Station design flow. One to two hours of lectures per day followed by independently preformed labs excersises. See FAQ's.
The labs in the course allow you to gain hands-on experience with the tool, defining both mechanical and high-speed constraints to meet today’s challenging PCB designs.
You will learn how to
- Define the main concepts and constraints hierarchy of CES.
- Enable CES as a constraint system in Board Station flow.
- Find and filter data in the design database.
- Navigate and manipulate the constraints hierarchy.
- Use the spreadsheets, toolbars, preferences, and options efficiently.
- 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.
- Reuse already defined constraints in the same design or other designs using Constraint Templates.
Hands-On Labs
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using CES software. Hands-on lab topics include:
- Adopting CES and synchronizing databases in the following design flows.
- Design Architect/Board Architect to Board Station RE Flow
- Design Architect/Board Architect to Board Station XE Flow
- User Interface
- Customizing the Windows Display
- Use the CES Browser and the Spreadsheets
- Edit Data in Spreadsheets
- Interface with the PCB Data
- Creating Net Class and Schemes
- Create Schemes
- Create and populate Net Classes
- Setting Up Mechanical Constraints
- Set up Trace and Via Properties
- Set up Clearance Rules
- Creating Constraint Classes
- Setting up Differential Pairs and Net Properties
- Create differential pairs
- Set differential pair constraints
- Assign custom topologies
- Assign complex topologies
- Setting up delays and parallelism
- Assign length and match group constraints
- Set up delays formulas
- Set up parallelism rules
- Route delay and length constrained nets
- Using Constraint Templates
- Import and export Constraint Templates
- Test Constraint Templates
- Assign Constraint Templates to nets
Audience
This course is for anyone who has worked with constraint-driven high-speed PCB designs.
- PCB Design Engineers
- PCB layout personnel
- Signal Integrity Engineers
- Design managers
- Project Managers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP or UNIX operating systems
Key Topics
- CES Overview
- CES in the flow
- CES User Interface
- Net Classes and Schemes
- Setting up Mechanical Constraints
- Creating Constraint Classes
- Net Properties and Differential Pairs
- Delays and Parallelism
- Using constraint templates
