PADS Tips and Tricks:  Differential Pairs

PADS Tips and Tricks: Differential Pairs

Today’s tip is from Bill Tkachuk in CSD.  It’s a great way to speed the definition and rule assignment for…

Great Things in Small Packages

Great Things in Small Packages

I visit many customers throughout the year, and read press releases from many of them.  I’ve seen some of the…

PADS Tips and Tricks – Installation and Licensing

PADS Tips and Tricks – Installation and Licensing

Hello, With the release of PADS 9.4, many of you are getting ready to move to this new release.  With…

PADS 9.4 Released with Unique Technology

PADS 9.4 Released with Unique Technology

PADS 9.4 was released earlier this week – take a look at the press release here: http://www.mentor.com/company/news/mentor-release-pads-dfm-high-speed-interactive-routing The new features…

The Parallel Pain

The Parallel Pain

Parallel busses are a pain to implement.  They really are.  Sure, they are slower than blazing-fast SERDES busses, but they…

Put the Pieces in Place for SERDES Success

Put the Pieces in Place for SERDES Success

Interconnect loss modeling?  Check.  Signal conditioning modeling?  Check.  Ability to simulate multiple S-parameter models for things like connectors and packages…

Know your limits

Know your limits

“A man’s got to know his limitations” … true, and so does a digital bus.  Clint Eastwood’s quote to conclude…

PADS Tips and Tricks – Cross Probing

PADS Tips and Tricks – Cross Probing

This weeks tip comes from Yan Killy, Technical Marketing Engineering, talking about cross probing between your schematic and PADS Layout…

2012 U2U Meetings

2012 U2U Meetings

Mentor is getting ready to kickoff this year’s regional USER2USER meetings – I hope you can find time to attend,…