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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...

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...

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...

By Patrick Carrier

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...

By Patrick Carrier

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...

By Patrick Carrier

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...

Electronic Systems Design

2012 U2U Meetings

February 29, 2012

Mentor is getting ready to kickoff this year’s regional USER2USER meetings – I hope you can find time to attend,...

Electronic Systems Design

PADS Tips and Tricks - Mounting Holes

February 24, 2012

Hello, I am starting a new regular topic to this blog – PADS Tips & Tricks. These will be quick...