Mentor creates cloud community for PCB designers

Mentor Graphics has added analogue/mixed-signal (AMS) and high-speed signal analysis to its PADS PCB deign and layout tools.

By Richard Wilson - Electronics Weekly, Jul. 12, 2016 – 

Mentor Graphics has added analogue/mixed-signal (AMS) and high-speed signal analysis to its PADS PCB deign and layout tools.

This includes a cloud-based circuit exploration/simulation environment and user community which is available free for all PADS users.

Dubbed PADS AMS Cloud, it will be used to create and share analogue and mixed-signal designs in an online community where designs and models can be published or downloaded.

Circuit designs created in the cloud can be transferred to the engineer's desktop environment, eliminating the need to manually recreate circuits to perform advanced analysis and drive the PCB design flow.

The AMS Design Suite uses VHDL-AMS, with its SPICE-based simulation engine. As well as carrying out basic simulation analysis such as DC bias, time-domain, and frequency-domain simulations, new capabilities include multi-run parametric sweeps, sensitivity, Monte Carlo, and Worst Case analysis to address specific engineering needs.

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