The standard product, called PADS is available for $5,000 to be affordable by engineers in small to mid-sized companies, or members of an isolated team within a larger companies performing the complete design, analysis and manufacturing data delivery of PCBs.
“In the past, for engineers doing complex design, their only option was to look at enterprise solutions, and for many, these solutions were out of their reach due to budget and heavy infrastructure requirements,” said Mentor.
The three products are:
- PADS Standard – Schematic and PCB layout with starter parts library, part creation wizard and archive management priced at $5,000 including support.
- PADS Standard Plus – PADS Standard, plus advanced constraint management, high-speed net constraints and routing, central library creation and management, HyperLynx -powered signal/thermal/analog simulation, and variants design priced at $10,000 including support.
- PADS Professional – PADS Standard Plus, including Xpedition-powered technologies such as sketch routing, simultaneous 2D/3D layout, hierarchical placement planning, component and net explorers, manufacturing prep and design review/compare priced at $18,000 including support.
“With the PADS product offerings we can better serve the independent engineer with scalable price-performance options from lower priced options up to highly complex design and analysis powered by Xpedition technologies,” said AJ Incorvaia, general manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design division.
Mentor Graphics continues to sell its multi-seat enterprise level PCB software called Xpedition. It also offers very low cost entry-level PCB design software through its agreement with Digi-Key.
The PADs tools incorporates version of technology available in the Xpedition tools. This includes a common constraint management system used across the flow to support advanced high-speed topologies and design for manufacture.
In the professional grade tool designers can virtually prototype their system powered by the HyperLynx product with signal/power integrity analysis, analogue or thermal simulation and advanced full-board rule checks, minimizing expensive, time-consuming physical prototype cycles.
Other Xpedition features include 2D/3D layout, dynamic power distribution design, and constraint-driven routing including the Sketch Router tool.
Engineers also have access to over 360,000 parts via PartQuest, a website that also merges Digi-Key part numbers with symbols and footprints.
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