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Electronic Systems Design

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...

Electronic Systems Design

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...

Embedded Software

Trends

I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview of the results from UBM’s annual survey of embedded developers....

Electronic Systems Design

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...

Embedded Software

Hail the straw man

There is an English idiom: “There are many ways to skin a cat”. Unpleasant an image though that is [even...

Electronic Systems Design

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...

Electronic Systems Design

The Parallel Pain

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

Electronic Systems Design

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...

Embedded Software

Embedded World visited

As I mentioned last week, I went to Embedded World in Nuremberg. The show itself seemed very busy – it...