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group planning and placement makes design reuse even
more powerful. A formal design reuse module creates
and stores reusable blocks of circuitry — including
schematic and PCB placement and routing data — in a
central library. This IP can be shared across the enterprise
and can be placed and modified within the same design
and across multiple designs.
Variant Management
The variant manager tool handles the creation of multiple
product configurations from a single design database. The
integrated management interface minimizes errors,
reduces costs, improves design quality and enhances
production efficiency. The layout environment allows
concurrent variant definitions within the schematic and
layout, as well as function-managed variants. Once
defined, variant documentation drawing output and bill of
materials can automatically be created.
Design Collaboration
Schematic Design Collaboration
Engineering design changes can cause delays and intro–
duce errors. Design collaboration eliminates the barriers of
restricting changes within a schematic/layout flow.
Whether a single schematic designer, or multiple
schematic designers collaborating, Xpedition supports
concurrent constraint and logic changes while the layout
is in progress, synchronizing the schematic and layout
with powerful integration features. Changes made to the
schematic and/or layout are easily updated into a
common database without interrupting the design cycle.
PCB designers also have access to an embedded
schematic view within the layout tool.
Concurrent Team Design
Award winning Xpedition xPCB Team Layout, powered by
Xtreme technology, allows multiple designers to work
simultaneously within a single PCB layout design database.
For PCB designs that have aggressive schedules,
concurrent layout enables collaboration across
geographically dispersed or functionally organized PCB
design groups to maximize productivity and dramatically
shorten design time to market. It is designed for
immediate deployment, and is as fully functional as its
single user counterpart. Time consuming training is not
needed, or changes to a company’s infrastructure or
library to implement. Refer to the Xpedition xPCB Team
Layout data sheet for complete details.
Design Validation
Dynamic Hazard Review
During layout, constraint requirements can change.
Designers must be able to validate the layout at any point
to the constraint definition. Complete online electrical,
and batch design rule validation make it easy to verify that
your design is correct-by-construction. Design hazards are
dynamically displayed and cross-probed in the design.
Hazards can be colored for easy identification. Once
identified, clearance violations can be individually- or
multi-selected for automatic repair. When a hazard is fixed,
it is dynamically removed from the hazard list.
Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
Creating and distributing manufacturing data to
production sites introduces challenges at a point in the
design process where errors can become very costly, both
in time and money. The constraint manager contains
manufacturing rules that optimize
component clearances and physical
clearances by area, and are dynamically
checked during the design process.
Advanced auto-assisted interactive
routing optimizes routing features
on-the-fly checking to reduce
manufacturing issues. In addition, there is
tight integration with Mentor Graphics
Valor NPI, allowing layout designers to
leverage the same constraints used for
final verification at manufacturing
vendors, with a left-shift method of
accessing the industry-premier solution
for DFM validation.
Manufacturing documentation and
outputs can be directly created within
the layout environment, so any last
minute layout changes are automatically
The embedded schematic view provides a current snapshot of the design for cross-probing
and placement within PCB layout.
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