PADS software unites quick schematic definition with powerful layout, routing, and simulation tools in an affordable, proven flow
Addressing PCB Design Applications
PCB designs grow increasingly complex and challenging with each technological advance. Add globally dispersed design and manufacturing teams to the mix, and the collaboration hurdles make projects difficult at best. PCB design software helps companies meet market demands, facilitate global collaboration, accelerate time-to-market, increase profit margins, and optimize/improve PCB reliability.
PCB Design Tasks
Solutions for common PCB design tasks:
- Design Creation
- Circuit Simulation
- Layout & Routing
- Library & Data Management
- Fabrication Assembly & Test
PADS
PADS PCB design solutions are created for designers by designers. They cover the entire design flow, from design definition through signal integrity analysis, functional simulation, layout and outputs to manufacturing.
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Xilinx Virtex II Pro Design Kit for PADS Layout
Implement RocketIO multi-gigabit serial transceivers for Xilinx's Virtex-II Pro
As part of the serial, multi-gigabit trend, Xilinx FPGAs with high-speed RocketIO™ serial transceivers are finding their way into hundreds of new applications. In an effort to make multi-gigabit interconnect implementation as painless as possible, Xilinx and Mentor Graphics have teamed up to provide the Xilinx footprint library for PADS Layout (formerly PowerPCB). Preconfigured footprints and symbols can be implemented in your design flow immediately, saving hours of library set up time.
Key features:
- Fully functional Xilinx footprint library
- Each footprint has been created and verified in accordance with Xilinx-recommended PCB design rules
- Optional via breakout patterns included to speedup routing time
- Includes silkscreen and assembly graphics data for manufacturing documentation
- Package outline and height information for online DRC checking
- Complete padstacks with solder mask and paste data
System Requirements
- Mentor Graphics PADS Layout (formerly PowerPCB) software
Click here to request additional design kits from Mentor Graphics.
- Altera Stratix GX II Design Kit for HyperLynx
- Altera Stratix Reference Design and Footprint for PADS Layout
- Xilinx Footprint Library for PADS Layout
- Xilinx Virtex-II AFX™ Reference Design for PADS Layout
Design Kits
Mentor Graphics has teamed up with several vendors to provide the following design kits and reference designs to accompany industry-leading high-speed design and PCB layout tools. These vendor specific designs provide Mentor customers with faster design implementation, increasing time to market and reduced design iterations.
Multi-Gigabit Design Kits
Multi-gigabit design kits enable easy simulation analysis, implementation of multi-gigabit technologies, and allow engineers to quickly get started simulating.
The following capabilities are enabled with the Mentor multi-gigabit design kits, and high speed tools:
- Eye-diagram, jitter and inter-symbol interference analysis
- Multi-bit stimuli
- Lossy line modeling
- Advanced via modeling
- Simulation with encrypted HSPICE or IBIS models
PCB Reference Designs
Why Do I Need a Multi-Gigabit Design Kit? Electronic hardware design is experiencing a distinct trend toward serialized, asynchronous architectures. In this world, existing bus standards such as PCI and ATA are being replaced with serialized versions like PCI Express and ATA-2. Serialized, multi-gigabit signaling addresses the critical problem of how to push data rates into the multi-Gbps range, where "classic" parallel, synchronous bus techniques become impractical. Gbps data channels, are serial (hence the need for SERializers and DESerializers), extremely fast, and often travel over interconnects without explicit clocks. Multi-gigabit, serial-or SERDES designs, as they are often called-serializes a parallel data bus into one or more "lanes" or bit streams and embeds the clock information within the data stream.
New Design and Analysis Techniques are needed This next generation I/O architecture offers the promise of decreased routing density, point-to-point connections, and elimination of clock trees, reducing overall system design complexity. Sophisticated receiver ICs use techniques like equalization to "recover" signals after they're seriously degraded by propagation across a PCB or down a cable. With these system-level benefits, Next Generation serial I/O also requires improved analysis techniques to address these issues, including:
- Improved modeling and analysis of transmission-line loss in PCB interconnects
- Improved modeling of vias and connectors
- Improved modeling and analysis of I/O "internals" to simulate the additional functionality they require, including "pre-emphasis"
It is for these reasons that Mentor Graphics is adding software enhancements that are absolutely critical to multi-gigabit design, as well as design kits that make this easier than ever
PADS PCB Viewer
PADS Viewer Software
The PADS PCB Viewer allows the user to load any PADS Logic or PADS Layout database and have full graphical control to view these designs.
PADS Viewer DetailsDOWNLOAD FREE VIEWER
What you get
PADS viewer/evaluation software is fully functional for small designs. It allows you to load, test, and save up to 30 components, 65 nets, and 150 connections.
For larger designs, the software will go into a"no output" or viewer mode. This allows you to view any data and experiment with all the features but you will not be able to save your work.
Hit the ground running
A User Guide along with QuickStarts, tutorials, and Concept Guides are included to help you get started.
Free
There is no charge and no time limit for this software trial.
How to get it
Fill out the form and you will receive an email with a link to download the software.
PADS PCB Design FeaturesLEARN MORE ABOUT PADS
New in PADS version 9.0
- 3D Viewer
- Rounded and chamfered pads
- Enhanced layout / Router integration
- Differential pair and accordion improvements
- Accordion keepouts
- Integration with visECAD and CAMCAD
- Support of new neutral ECAD file format
- New outputs (IPC356, Flat DXF)
- Thermal Analysis
- Single-sided board verification
- Modeless layer visibility commands
- Automation
- Quality improvements
- Power Integrity
REQUIREMENTS
PADS Product Demos - Confirmation
Thank you flyfish Wang Links to the demo(s) listed below will be sent to flyfish1107@gmail.com
Please note that the demo(s) you requested may refer to product names that have changed recently. For example, PADS-Designer is now DxDesigner, PowerLogic is now PADS Logic, and PowerPCB is now PADS Layout. The technical content of the videos remains accurate.
Demo(s) requested:
- Parts Selection
- Cross-probing
- Design Validation
- Interactive Routing
- High-speed Routing
- Physical Design Reuse
Please note: These product demonstrations are viewable only on the Windows platform. (Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers)
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