WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the delivery of three
new PADS® family products starting at unprecedented
pricing of five thousand dollars to
address the advancing needs of the independent engineer. The new
PADS family provides for the wide spectrum of electronics
complexity by combining ease of learning and use, characteristic of
previous market-leading PADS products, with high-productivity
design and analysis technologies and unprecedented
price-performance value. It builds on the strong PADS legacy –
production-proven on millions of designs by hundreds of thousands
of engineers worldwide – and in some cases leverages certain
technologies of the market-leading Xpedition® suite. Now
the independent engineer has affordable access to the capabilities
that distinguish the Mentor Graphics portfolio and enable higher
design productivity, enhanced product quality, and cost and design
cycle reduction.
These independent engineers are typically part of a small to
mid-sized company, or members of an isolated team within a large
enterprise (e.g. building prototypes, validating reference designs,
and performing manufacturability studies), and perform the complete
design, analysis and manufacturing data delivery of printed circuit
board (PCB) electronic products. In the past, for engineers doing
complex design, their only option was to look at enterprise
solutions, and for many, these solutions were out of their reach
due to budget and heavy infrastructure requirements.
As demands increase for the efficient design of electronic
products, the burden often falls on independent engineers to
perform the complete process but current lower-priced offerings run
out of steam and do not support their complete needs. The
design process can often include more than schematic entry and
layout of the PCB and may require analysis such as signal
integrity, thermal, design-for-manufacturability, and power
distribution network integrity. As well, depending on the
company, the complexity of the end-product can vary from relatively
simple to extremely complex.
"The biggest pressure that we face is being able to produce a
design that is good on the first run." stated Louis Demers, CTO, Obzerv Technologies, Inc.
"The PADS tool suite is a very cost-effective design solution that
tackles our most complex design challenges, as well as providing a
growth path for our future needs. The advantage of going with PADS
is that we will be able to converge toward a workable design much
quicker, with fewer iterations, fewer expenses and quicker delivery
to market. We will also have more time to be bold in our design,
driving for maximum performance and functionality." Obzerv
Technologies Inc. designs and manufactures high-end night-vision
cameras for mid-range and long-range surveillance applications
based on active imaging.
With the delivery of the three new PADS products (Standard,
Standard Plus and Professional) starting at $5,000 including support, Mentor has combined
classic PADS product ease of use with three levels of design
technology at affordable pricing. This effectively creates a new
category of PCB design solutions. The new PADS offerings leverage
technologies found in the Mentor Graphics® flagship
Xpedition product, to tackle the most advanced design complexity
challenges. The Mentor® integration of these technologies into
easy-to-use products meets critical needs for an independent
engineer with broad design and analysis responsibility as they may
only occasionally use a tool in the design process and they are
required to quickly and efficiently employ the tool then proceed to
the next step in the process.
The new products include:
- PADS Standard – Schematic and PCB layout with starter parts
library, part creation wizard and archive management priced at
$5,000 USD including support.
- PADS Standard Plus – PADS Standard, plus advanced constraint
management, high-speed net constraints and routing, central library
creation and management, HyperLynx® -powered signal/thermal/analog
simulation, and variants design priced at $10,000 USD including support.
- PADS Professional – PADS Standard Plus, including
Xpedition-powered technologies such as sketch routing, simultaneous
2D/3D layout, hierarchical placement planning, component and net
explorers, manufacturing prep and design review/compare priced at
$18,000 USD including support.
"To achieve maximum engineering efficiency and to optimize our
products, our engineers work on board projects from concept through
simulation and layout, all the way into manufacturing," stated John
Sherman, vice president, Astek Corporation. "They need to
use a broad set of tools, which means tools must be easy to pick up
after a period of non-use. They also push the edge on product
complexity, with high-frequency, high-density designs. We believe
the PADS technology will enable us to easily tackle our complexity
challenges, optimizing the productivity of our multi-disciplinary
engineers." Astek Corporation provides storage solutions, test and
measurement equipment, and electronic design services for the
embedded market.
Technologies in the PADS products that differentiate them from
the market include:
- Correct-by-construction methodology: Enabled by a common
constraint management system used across the flow to support
advanced high-speed topologies and design for manufacture,
minimizing design cycle iterations by getting it right the first
time.
- Integrated, accurate, easy-to-use analysis and verification
technology: Designers can virtually prototype their system powered
by the HyperLynx product with signal/power integrity analysis,
analog or thermal simulation and advanced full-board rule checks,
minimizing expensive, time-consuming physical prototype
cycles.
- Highest performing, highest capacity layout environment:
Leverages industry-leading technology powered by the Xpedition
product for placement/planning, 2D/3D layout, dynamic power
distribution design, and constraint-driven routing including the
Sketch Router™ tool to tackle the most complex layouts.
- Part library access: Engineers can use over 360,000 parts via
PartQuest™, a fully integrated website that also merges Digi-Key
part numbers with symbols and footprints, reducing manual errors
and saving time and cost.
- Manufacturing preparation: Validation of the design for
fabrication and test, and preparation for manufacturing hand-off
and documentation.
- Maintenance of data integrity: Management and archiving of
different design revs, and simplification of reviews across the
organization.
"Mentor Graphics has long been known for providing market and
technology leading solutions for team design in large enterprises
with our Xpedition product line as well as our classic PADS
offerings," stated AJ Incorvaia, general manager of Mentor Graphics
Systems Design Division. "But as the industry grows there is more
need for higher productivity design capabilities for the
independent engineer. With the PADS product offerings we can better
serve the independent engineer with scalable price-performance
options from lower priced options up to highly complex design and
analysis powered by Xpedition technologies. And as the design
organization expands, we offer seamless scalability to our
Xpedition Enterprise platform."
For more information on the new PADS product family for the
independent engineer, go to www.pads.com.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation
(NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and
software design solutions, providing products, consulting services
and award-winning support for the world's most successful
electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the
company reported revenues over the last 12 months in excess of
$1.24 billion. Corporate headquarters
are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web
site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor HyperLynx, Xpedition and PADS are
registered trademarks and Sketch Router is a trademark of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
For more information, please contact:
Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
+1.503.685.1664
Larry_toda@mentor.com
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