102 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2019
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Mentor's EDA Perspective on
Managing Design Rules
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I recently spoke with Dave Wiens, product
manager, and Mike Santarini, EDA content di-
rector of corporate marketing, both of Mentor,
a Siemens Business, about design rules and
constraints, and what their customers want re-
garding design rules. They explained how EDA
companies like Mentor help designers con-
strain for performance while avoiding over-
constraining and increasing the cost of the
board and also being manufacturing-aware.
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Freedom CAD Book Excerpt:
The Printed Circuit Designer's Guide
to… Executing Complex PCBs
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The following is an excerpt from
Chapter 5 on "Design Rules,
Simulations, and Analyses" from
The Pri
nted Circuit Designer's
Guide to… Executing Complex
PCBs written by Scott Miller of
Freedom CAD Services.
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Beyond Design: High-speed PCB
Design Constraints
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Digital design has entered a
new realm. Modern high-speed
design (HSD) not only requires
the designer to continuously
break new ground on a techni-
cal level but also requires the
designer to account for significantly more vari-
ables associated with higher frequencies, fast-
er transition times, and higher bandwidths.
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Altium's Craig Arcuri on Design
Rules: Past, Present, and Future
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I-Connect007 recently spoke
with Altium's Craig Arcuri
about his views on design and
manufacturing rules. Craig de
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tails some of the challenges
with setting and managing hun-
dreds of often divergent design
and manufacturing rules, and how both design
and manufacturing constraints
need to evolve.
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