Duration: 3 Days Pricing: $2,100 Course Part Number: 238783

Course Overview

The DxDesigner for the PADS course was developed to improve your knowledge and skills with Design Definition solutions. Using the DxDesigner tools suite, you will gain proficiency in project management with Dashboard, schematic capture with DxDesigner, part selection using DxDatabook and much more. You will also learn how to prepare your final schematic for interfacing with the Mentor Graphics PADS layout tool.

Detailed lab exercises help reinforce what is discussed during the lectures and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.

You will learn how to

• Use DxDesigner proficiently in the creation of flat and hierarchical schematic designs
• Place wires and buses in the design to create net connections
• Use DxDatabook to search, select, and verify parts used in your design
• Create symbols for your schematics through a variety of methods
• Effectively build intelligence into your design using properties
• Compile, package and export your schematic to PADS for place and route
• Use the Constraint Editor to create and assign constraints to your design

Hands-on Lab

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using DxDesigner software. Hands-on lab topics include:

• Creating a project and setting up projects in Dashboard and DxDesigner
• Configuring DxDesigner
• Schematic creation for flat and hierarchical designs
• Symbol graphics creation
• Adding properties to symbols and schematics
• Net label cross-referencing
• Interfacing to PADS layout tool
• Setting constraints with the Constraint Editor
• A student design challenge that pulls together all aspects of the tool discussed during class

Audience

• Engineers and schematic designers who will use DxDesigner to create schematics that will be used as "front end" designs for PADS layout tool
• CAD Engineers and Managers who will be responsible for integration of the DxDesigner tool suite in their design flow
• PCB Designers who would like to have a good understanding of the front-end schematic capture process

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with Windows XP, NT, 2000 or UNIX operating systems

Key Topics

DxDesigner Introduction

• DxDesigner to PADS Flow
• DxDesigner Environment
• InfoHub
• SupportNet

Project Set Up

• Creating a New Project
• Project Files
• The WDIR
• Project Templates

Schematic Design

• Navigating
• Selection
• Adding Components
• Adding Net
• Naming Nets
• Find and Replace
• Arrays

Connectivity

• Adding Busses
• Ripping Buses
• Bus Contents

Symbol Creation

• Creating symbols using the Symbol Editor
• Creating Composite Symbols using top-down and bottom-up methods

Modifying Schematics

• Splitting Nets
• Replacing Components
• Reassign Nets
• Combining Nets
• Disconnecting Devices
• Using the Command Line
• Replacing and Verifying components using DxDataBook
• Copy and Paste
• Copying from other projects

Hierarchical Design

• Hierarchical Blocks
• Symbols
• Changing the Root Schematic

Verification

• DxDataBook Verification Methods
• Design Rule Checking

Forward to Layout

• Using PCB Interface
• Generating Netlists
• DxDesigner to PADS: Forward Annotation
• PADS to DxDesigner: Back Annotation

Constraint Editor

• Constraints for PADS
• Constraints for Allegro/Zuken
• DxDesigner Link

Schematic Documentation

• PartsLister
• Cross Referencing
• PDF Schematics
• Printing
• Archiving