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Board Station XE (BSXE
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The next generation of the Board Station flow Board Station XE

A Tightly Integrated Systems Design Flow The Board Station® design flow is well known for its ability to help companies create leading-edge, complex PCB designs in large enterprise environments. The Board Station XE flow is a new platform for Board Station customers to meet the increasing technological and time-tomarket demands of today’s electronics market. Board Station XE is the next major upgrade – or evolution - of the Board Station flow. It delivers the highest level of layout design productivity in the industry and does so by using AutoActive® – a modern software technology for PCB...

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PCB design process. Based upon the time proven Design Architect, Board Architect enhancements allow the seamless integration with the whole PCB design process and provides for the ultimate control in simultaneous and synchronized PCB design when coupled with Board Station XE. Board Architect was designed with built-in features to support on-the-fly packaging, simultaneous design, design reuse, advanced variant support and the creation and management of documentation. FPGA-On-Board Design Collaboration To help with the growing demands of FPGA and PCB design, Mentor Graphics® offers I/O...

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What is AutoActive? • A single, integrated, place and route editing environment that reduces total design time and increases productivity. • All physical rules and high speed rules are maintained. • Correct-by-construction design that produces high-quality results with clean-up time eliminated. • Shape-based, true 45 degree routing. • The most advanced autorouting technology ever. Stop and start the autorouter at any time and all results will be correct-by-construction. • Dynamic clean-up of traces through the reduction of segments, prevention of acute angles, and application of pad entry...

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Circuit Move & Copy – Informal Physical Design Reuse The new Circuit Move and Copy command brings the ability to move or copy just about any layout data on the board. Not only is it possible to copy layout data from within the same design but also across designs, thereby providing an informal physical design reuse. Utilizing advanced selection filters, it's possible to accurately define exactly what items in the design get selected, and then pasted into the final design. Furthermore, copied circuits cannot only be copied, but moved, rotated or mirrored. Pasted circuits can also be mapped to...

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Differential Pair Routing Routing and editing differential pairs with Board Station XE for layout is accomplished with speed and ease that changes the view of high-speed design. Pair spacing rules can be established by both layer and net class. If one trace is edited, the other trace in the pair automatically moves with it. Adjacent layer differential pair routing capabilities add another valuable option for routing critical signals on a dense PCB. Simultaneous Design XtremePCB is a revolutionary and exciting new technology that enables multiple PCB designers to work on a single design...

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Signal Integrity, Timing Analysis and EMI With the Board Station XE flow, timing, signal integrity and electro - magnetic interference (EMI) issues can be addressed and corrected throughout the design process rather than just at the end. This ensures that designs are correct the first time, effectively reducing design iterations and creating the opportunity for optimum system performance. The enterprise high-speed solution is centered around the common CES and ICX™ powerful simulation technology. ICX Pro™ Explorer and ICX Pro Verify allow users to evaluate highspeed requirements, produce...

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Manufacturing Preparation Manufacturing and fabrication have always been an extremely integral part of PCB design. Previously, designers had to use multiple applications to create schematics, layouts and prepare designs for manufacturing. To make the process easier, Board Station XE has Fablink XE™ Pro, an integrated manufacturing data creation, generation and verification environment powered by AutoActive. Fablink XE Pro was created specifically for designers to control their fabrication data at either the board or panel level, thus ensuring design and manufacturing data integrity. Fablink...

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Systems Design Division Mentor Graphics Corporation 1811 Pike Road Longmont, CO 80501 720.494.1000 Main 888.482.3322 Sales www.mentor.com/pcb Corporate Headquarters Mentor Graphics Corporation 8005 SW Boeckman Road Wilsonville, OR 97070-7777 503.685.7000 Main 800.547.3000 Sales www.mentor.com Copyright© 2008 Mentor Graphics Corporation. AutoActive, Board Station, Design Architect, HyperLynx, ModelSim and Mentor Graphics are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. DxDesigner, I/O Designer, DMS, DxDataManager, Constraint Editor System, XtremePCB, Fablink XE, ICX Pro Explorer,...

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