PADS Tips and Tricks – Installation and Licensing
Hello, With the release of PADS 9.4, many of you are getting ready to move to this new release. With that in mind, this week’s tip & trick is help with installation of licensing, and comes from...
View ArticlePADS Tips and Tricks: Differential Pairs
Today’s tip is from Bill Tkachuk in CSD. It’s a great way to speed the definition and rule assignment for differential pairs. Give it a try and add any comments for tips you may have for working with...
View ArticlePADS Tips and Tricks – Downloading New License File
This weeks Tip comes from Andrew Audova in the environmental support group: What do you do when you launch PADS and get the following message stating “The following product options expire in fewer than...
View ArticlePADS Tips and Tricks: Sense Lines
This weeks tip comes from Yan Killy, technical marketing engineer: Many times you need to route high current traces. Almost always these wide traces have sense lines that are going to control the...
View ArticlePADS Tips and Tricks: Via Shielding
Here’s another Tip from Yan Killy, Technical Marketing Engineer: It is a common practice to use vias to shielding high noise traces. It involves using multiple vias connected to a ground net around the...
View ArticlePADS Tips and Tricks: Modeless Commands
PADS – deservedly so – has the reputation of a powerful, easy to use tool. The menus and dialog boxes are engineered to be intuitive, and easy for new users to navigate through. Sometimes though, the...
View ArticleAre You Sure Your Manufacturing Outputs Are Good?
I’ve been presenting at a bunch of seminars throughout the world over the past few months. One of the presentations has been about passing data from PCB design to manufacturing. I make the point that...
View ArticlePADS Tips and Tricks: Object Snapping
With PADS 9.4.1, the user was given new controls during the creation and editing of drafting shapes. You can now control how and where the cursor will snap to an oject, including corners, midpoints,...
View ArticlePADS 9.5 Now Available
PADS 9.5 is now available for download on SupportNet at http://supportnet.mentor.com/downloads/index.cfm?id=201206070&product=C115-S153-G192-P10548&redirected=true&reason=0 PADS 9.5...
View ArticleIs it Time to “Bring the Power” to your Front-End Design?
I’ve visited with many customers over the past couple of months at seminars, user group meetings and other venues. One thing that is consistent with everyone I spoke to – they are way too busy, and...
View ArticleDo Your Designs Require Simulation and Analysis?
Are you doing any simulation today, specifically for signal integrity issues? Many design professionals believe that simulaiton is only needed for really bleeding-edge technology. But in my recent...
View ArticlePADS Evaluation Now on the Cloud!
Taking a look at PADS is now easier than ever – we’re on the Cloud! The full PADS ES Suite Evaluation is still available to download, but if you want a quick and easy way to evaluate PADS, check out...
View ArticleInteractive Routing in the PADS ES Suite
When designing a PCB, most of your time may be spent interactively routing. PADS has always been known for having powerful, yet easy to use interactive routing capabilities to help engineers and...
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