PCB Design Creation
Define, verify, and communicate design intent throughout the PCB design flow
Xpedition PCB Design Creation tools are fully integrated with the layout environment. They help engineers capture schematics, integrate ICs onto the PCB, and communicate electrical and physical rules to all design teams.
FPGA Integration reduces design cycles, improving performance and manufacturing, while Constraint Editor manages electrical and physical requirements. Furthermore, you have a complete design creation and definition with schematics and HDL.
White Paper
As next-generation High-Density-Advanced-Packaging (HDAP) designs become more common, PCB designers and engineers are looking to sys-tem-level co-design to tie multi-substrate visualization, planning, and optimization, into a complete multi-board design. Co-design methodology allows design teams to plan and optimize I/O and connectivity from a chip, through multiple packaging scenarios, and on to printed circuit boards for complete system-design success.
Schematic Design
Schematic Design
Xpedition Designer provides a complete schematic design solution for design creation, definition, and reuse. It provides everything needed for circuit design and simulation, component selection, library management, and signal integrity planning in a concurrent team-based design environment.
The integrated desktop enables engineering teams to perform every key design creation task in a single, scalable, concurrent, and real-time collaboration environment.
Its customizable project navigator dynamically reflects the project content through a highly concurrent editing session by filtering hierarchical blocks, components, nets, and properties as they are added. It also supports bi-directional cross-probing with all editors. Design reuse and variant design are supported, which reduces product time-to-market, improves product quality, and lowers product costs.
Constraint Management
Constraint Management
Xpedition provides a common, integrated constraint definition environment for schematic capture and layout.
Bi-directional cross-probing, highlighting, and selection between the constraint environment, design capture, and layout ensure design intent is accurately, efficiently captured, and adhered to.
The constraint manager supports the definition and verification of electrical and physical constraints within one environment, eliminating the need for separate databases, and simplifying a complex constraint entry process while improving design accuracy.
Constraint reuse within a design and between designs, and support for concurrent constraint entry accelerate the design process.
FPGA I/O Optimization
FPGA I/O Optimization
Eliminate the barriers between FPGA and PCB design organizations, enabling concurrent design processes with greater accuracy and speed.
Xpedition FPGA I/O Optimizer provides correct-by-construction FPGA I/O assignment, allowing pin swapping and layout-based I/O optimization within the PCB process, delivering these benefits:
- Bridges the domains of HDL-based FPGA design and PCB design for automated, fast, and error-free bidirectional data exchange
- Fully integrated, easy to use multi-FPGA onboard I/O optimization reduces layer count, cost, and design time
- Correct-by-construction FPGA vendor rule-driven I/O assignment minimizes re-spins
- Fast, easy, and automated FPGA symbol generation saves days of PCB design creation time
- Fast and error-free I/O optimization utilizing FPGA symbols from the standard corporate library
Concurrent PCB Design
Concurrent PCB Design
Xpedition Enterprise supports multi-user, multi-site tool based and flow based concurrent engineering throughout the product development process. All team members can work with the entire database in real-time without any need to partition and re-assemble. Xpedition tools manage the edits from all users and continually send updates to the entire team.
Concurrent engineering has been proven to reduce design cycle time by 40 to 70 percent for even the most complex PCBs. Additional benefits include:
- Competitive differentiation
- Improved time to market
- Reduced product development cost
- Improved design quality
Design Review
Design Review
Collaborate within design teams, between design and manufacturing groups, and within manufacturing.
Its comprehensive viewer lets you capture, annotate and pass intelligent data, ensuring faster, more accurate, and easier collaboration on any design.
Schematic capture and layout information is presented to the user with all the intelligence of the authoring ECAD system.
Design for Test
Proactive PCB Design for Test
Placing the right number of test points on the right nets in your board’s schematic design, allows you to optimize the test coverage at In-Circuit Test, Flying Probe, and Boundary Scan, so board defects can be fixed more efficiently before the boards reach functional test and potentially end up in the boneyard.
Design for Test performs ongoing test point management that monitors the testability considerations throughout the design flow. You can identify the components and defects that have the biggest impact during manufacturing and align a test strategy that delivers optimal results, decreasing your overall cost of the test.
- Creates test point requirements per net and test coverage per component across the board.
- Imports test point requirements per net data into Xpedition to place those test points
- Checks the layout test point requirements against the actual test points placed and reports the differences
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