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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: Expedition Enterprise
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2005
Design system takes an enterprise-wide
view
Mentor Graphics has released its new Expedition Enterprise flow for PCB systems design.
Mentor Graphics has released its new Expedition Enterprise flow for PCB systems design This flow enables large electronics companies to leverage their multidisciplined design team resources, and create and provide access to their intellectual property on a global basis
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Expedition Enterprise can significantly improve competitiveness and performance by combining advanced PCB design technology with library and design data management, and a unified constraint editing system.
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"We needed to improve operational efficiency through reduced design cycle time and product costs, with improved design quality".
"The Expedition Enterprise design flow enables us to leverage our design team resources and intellectual property to achieve our objectives".
Expedition Enterprise addresses the challenges of the global enterprise, including intellectual property management, supply chain integration, and design team management across multiple sites.
It integrates and manages the system design flow and enables seamless data transfer among design teams, improving designer productivity and design team collaboration, while facilitating communication with the corporate enterprise.
This new solution offers improved library management which simplifies supply chain management, increases library quality, and reduces product costs.
Expedition Enterprise also integrates FPGA and PCB design flows, allowing concurrent design that leverages the FPGA's I/O flexibility, and addresses routing and timing challenges, and facilitates common design constraint management.
Expedition Enterprise is available on multiple hardware platforms to support existing hardware investments "Expedition Enterprise is the culmination of recent technology acquisitions combined with significant engineering effort to deliver the next-generation PCB systems design solution", stated Henry Potts, Vice President and General Manager of Mentor Graphics' Systems Design Division.
"Expedition Enterprise was created in collaboration with our global customers to solve their enterprise business and technical design challenges".
This new tool suite provides superior integration of Mentor's proven and industry-leading technology.
Expedition Enterprise builds on the core flow with critical plug-ins to improve designer productivity and support advanced design technologies.
The new flow encompasses DxDesigner for design definition, CES for constraint editing, Expedition PCB for layout and DMS for data management.
Also included in this flow is ICX Pro Explorer, which is used to evaluate and verify constraints defined early in the process.
It is built on Mentor's AutoActive technology, and uses the same database and environment as Expedition PCB.
Expedition Enterprise is available immediately.
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