Comprehensive claims for PCB design suite

The Board Station flow includes tools for design creation, layout and manufacture, and is designed to meet the requirements of enterprise design teams.

Mentor Graphics Corp has announced the release of the latest version of its Board Station design flow for large, enterprise customers.

The Board Station flow includes tools for design creation, layout and manufacture, and is designed to meet the requirements of enterprise design teams.

This release offers improved integration with the enterprise, as well as improved design productivity and "what if" signal integrity (SI) analysis.

"Advances in PCB fabrication technologies, system performance and FPGA densities/pin counts, compounded by emerging government regulations such as RoHS, continue to challenge our most aggressive customers as they strive to meet competitive time to market goals", said Dan Boncella, Director of Marketing, Systems Design Division, Mentor Graphics.

"This new release of our Board Station flow addresses these challenges by continuing to tightly integrate our high speed pre- and post-layout analysis tools, library and data management, and adds PCB interactive routing productivity enhancements".

This version of Board Station offers the advanced design features, data management and library capabilities required in the enterprise environment, with teams of designers leveraging data and processes from multiple locations in a global organisation.

Board Station is the world leading solution for the design of highly complex printed circuit boards.

It is the most comprehensive PCB design solution on the market today.

The depth and breadth of capability and technology support in the Board Station flow is enhanced through tight integration of the flow and the ability to add extensive customisation.

Board Station has a 20 year legacy of designing cutting edge PCBs, which has been leveraged to produce the best version ever released.

Whether the challenge is high-speed design, enterprise automation, library management, global team design, rapid time to market, or all of the above, Board Station is the premier design automation solution.

Board Station is available immediately.

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