Running at 6GHz with your eyes closed can be scary

Running at 6GHz with your eyes closed can be scary

Running at 6GHz is actually kind of scary regardless, but especially so with your eyes closed.  And I mean that…

PADS Tips and Tricks: Sense Lines

PADS Tips and Tricks: Sense Lines

This weeks tip comes from Yan Killy, technical marketing engineer: Many times you need to route high current traces. Almost…

It’s never too late

It’s never too late

It’s never too late to fix a design problem.  Well, maybe if the product is shipping, that might be classified…

PADS Tips and Tricks – Downloading New License File

PADS Tips and Tricks – Downloading New License File

This weeks Tip comes from Andrew Audova in the environmental support group: What do you do when you launch PADS…

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…