WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the first phase of a new
systems design enterprise platform to address today's printed
circuit board (PCB) systems challenges of increased complexity,
changing team demographics, and systems-aware design requirements.
The Mentor Graphics Xpedition™ platform significantly simplifies
and accelerates the development of the industry's most challenging
designs. By combining an intuitive design environment with
designer-driven automation, the Xpedition platform addresses the
changing responsibilities of designers, including global team-based
organizations, so that users can perform at expert levels for
optimum productivity. The result is shortened product development
cycles, minimized design re-spins, and improved product quality.
The first phase of the launch announces new Xpedition PCB layout
technology.
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"The Xpedition platform is our most significant product in
years, resulting from our commitment and response to our customers'
inputs by delivering the most advanced solution in the industry,"
stated Henry Potts, vice president
and general manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division.
"The new platform, by building upon the strength of our current
market-leading solutions, is designed for accelerated adoption and
deployment. I'm gratified that early feedback from customers
validates the ease of adoption as well as the ground-breaking
advances of this solution."
Advanced Automated Layout Technologies
The Xpedition PCB layout platform, the first announced phase of the
new Xpedition flow, addresses key challenges of today's systems
designers: placement planning for performance and reuse;
efficient routing of complex, dense topologies; and
electro-mechanical optimization. A key feature in this platform is
Sketch Router™ which provides the designer with extensive
interactive control of the auto-assisted routing process by
delivering hand-routed-quality results in dramatically reduced time
– a significant industry advancement.
"Sketch Router is incomparable to anything available today, and
I was really surprised at how easy it is to use— it quickly became
second-nature," stated John Medina,
owner of High Speed Design Services. "The quality looks like a hand
route, and I would bet that most people could not tell the
difference."
With the complexity of high density boards, multiple layers,
design and space constraints, the need for an environment that
enables collaboration across multiple disciplines within an
enterprise is imperative. The platform is an easy-to-use, highly
productive design environment that delivers automated component
planning and placement, auto-assisted interactive routing, and 3D
design development—even for individuals or teams relatively
unfamiliar with complex PCB layout design.
Major Xpedition PCB Layout Features and Benefits
Simplified planning and placement
- Streamlined placement using engineering-driven hierarchical
component grouping methodology – an industry first;
- User-managed netline visualization for groups, individual
parts, or regions of a design;
- Circuit management to organize, modify and protect critical
component and route group data.
Accelerated routing
- The Sketch Router enables user control over trace location,
routing styles and even a selection of via patterns—with quality
that matches manual routing so closely that clean-up is usually not
needed;
- Simplified visualization and repair of design rule
violations;
- Efficient, high-quality routing and tuning of differential
pairs including automatic phase matching, symmetrical pad entry,
and curved traces;
- Improved visualization of route connections and obstacles in
the path.
Design in true 3D
- A fully-integrated environment that uses the same selection,
planning, and placement functionality for 2D and 3D – unique to the
industry;
- Reduces ECAD/MCAD iterations with photo-realistic visualization
using accurate 3D parametric models of components and enclosures –
an industry first;
- Includes a library of more than four million vendor parts, with
easy tools to import and align imported models or create using
templates;
- Enables definition of 3D design constraints and dynamic
checking during the placement process;
- Import and visualize multiple boards within the context of the
mechanical enclosure.
Intuitive, efficient design environment
- Graphical user interface (GUI) redesigned for ease of access
and usability;
- Design aids that make the environment easy to learn and retain,
including personalization to focus on most-used functionality;
- Improved management of components and nets to capture
engineering intent and simplify access to critical data.
Availability
The Xpedition platform will be available to early adopters in March
– general availability is mid-year 2014. Contact a local
Mentor Graphics sales representative for additional product
information, or visit the website:
http://www.mentor.com/pcb/xpedition/
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic
hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year in excess of $1.15
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005
S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville,
Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor are registered trademarks and Xpedition
and Sketch Router are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation.
All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective owners)
For more information,
please contact:
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Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
larry_toda@mentor.com
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Suzanne
Graham
Mentor
Graphics
503.685.7789
suzanne_graham@mentor.com
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