Expedition PCB Advanced

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Date BeginsDate EndsTimeLocationRegister
Apr 10, 2012Apr 13, 20129:00am - 5:00pm Fremont, CARegister
May 22, 2012May 25, 20128:00am - 5:00pm Marlborough, MARegister

Duration: 4 Days
Pricing: $2,800.00 USD
Course Part Number: 236554

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Course Overview

The Expedition® PCB Advanced course will help you understand many of the advanced layout options available for Expedition PCB, including many of the purchasable utilities.

Detailed lab exercises help reinforce what is discussed during the lectures, and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.

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

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using Expedition PCB software. Hands-on lab topics include:

  • 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
  • Using CES Constraint Classes and Templates
  • Defining and routing CES Signal Topology
  • Defining and routing CES Differential Pairs
  • Defining and routing CES 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

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with concepts of PCB technology
  • Familiarity with Windows operating systems
  • Successful completion of the Expedition PCB Introduction course or adequate experience using Expedition PCB. (Without the Expedition PCB Introduction course, instructor permission is required.)

Key Topics

Link to Student Workbook: TOC.pdf

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