(We can anticipate more product roll outs over the coming months.) This week the company rolled out the new layout tool. It felt to me as if they were presenting a new way of doing things and asking, “Now, how about this? Better?” In this 2014 Xpedition, Mentor has retained this spirit and reimagined the Xpedition Enterprise platform. At the time, what impressed me more than anything else was the company’s wish to provide designers with a tool that anticipated their needs, tried to speed up the design process, and move to a more systems level approach. I first recall hearing about a Mentor Expedition product (the name has since changed to Xpedition) back in 2008, when they visited me to talk about an integrated solution jointly developed by Mentor and Agilent that aimed to cut RF-PCB development cycle time in half. This, of course, is not a new problem for board designers, but Mentor Graphics is offering a snappy solution to how you layout a design. Now interference, power management, thermal issues, manufacturability, and effects of routing on each component must be carefully considered in boards with growing amounts of complexity. Long gone are the days when each component could be considered a standalone entity. This week Mentor Graphics released its Xpedition platform, which squarely takes aim at simplifying board layout and place and route.
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