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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...

Electronic Systems Design

Know your limits

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

Embedded Software

Seeing the light

I observe in the news that the US government is “catching up” with Europe and progressively banning the sale of...

Electronic Systems Design

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...