This course is aimed at PCB Designers and Technicians, Electrical Engineers who will be directing or performing their own circuit board layout, CAD Engineers and Managers who are responsible for integrating Expedition PCB into their design flow, Members of CAD supports groups who are responsible for increased productivity of PCB design teams.

The Best Tools are Only as Good as You Know How to Use Them. The Expedition suite of PCB design tools provides the most comprehensive technology available for board design. The Mentor Graphics certified program, conducted by our trainers is well structured and fast-paced, covering all aspects of Expedition PCB. You will examine every step of the design process in lectures; including Capturing a schematic, Creating library parts, Placement and routing, Forward and backward annotations, Gerber creation, Report generation. Lab exercises provide you with hands-on tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry-expert instructors reinforcing the design process steps covered in the lecture. 

The training course also includes introductory session on Signal Integrity and High Speed Design methodology to address today's design issues such as Interconnects, Noise and Timing and their effects on digital circuitry and printed circuit Boards.

• Use Design Capture proficiently in the creation of flat and hierarchical schematic designs 
• Effectively build intelligence into your design using text properties 
• Place wires and busses in the design to create net connections 
• Use the verify command to help you avoid common design mistakes 
• Create and maintain the Common Database 
• Setup, run and interpret results of the packager utility
• Annotate and Document the schematic design using Design Capture utilities
  
  

• Process Flow Overview 
• Introduction to the Design Capture user interface 
• Creating a project file and setting up project pointers 
• Populating the schematic design with symbols, parts, wires, buses, and text properties
• Verifying and correcting design mistakes 
• Common Database Concepts
• The Packager Utility 
• Annotation and finishing the Design 
• Customizing the User Interface and configuration files 
• Design Capture Other Utilities
  

• Start a new Central Library and copy elements between libraries 
• Create partitions and set up partition search order schemes
• Control default text properties and create custom properties
• Create symbols for use in Design Capture schematics
• Create padstacks for use in Expedition PCB and the Cell Editor 
• Create cells to represent the part footprint and physical characteristics in Expedition PCB 
• Integrate symbols and cells together to define parts for Design Capture and Expedition PCB 
• Maintain Expedition PCB layout templates 
• Use Design Capture and Expedition PCB to test the symbols, cells and PDBs that you defined in the central library 
• Use the Report Writer to develop text file reports about Central Library Data.
  

• Creating a Central Library
• Library Manager and Library Services 
• Text Properties 
• Padstack, Basic Cell and Basic Symbol Editors 
• Advanced symbols 
• Routing in the Cell Editor 
• Cell Editor graphics commands 
• PDB Editor basic usage 
• Testing symbols and PDBs using Design Capture 
• Testing cells using Expedition PCB 
• Report Writer

• Create Board Geometries using "snap" and template techniques not otherwise possible with standard Expedition PCB "Draw" commands 
• Take advantage of other placement commands and techniques 
• Attain a full understanding of your fanout options for BGA's, and today's fine-pitched devices
• Understanding and setup Design rules available in Expedition PCB (i.e., Topology control, Net classes and Clearance and Net Properties) 
• Understand the depths of our Auto router to most effectively route designs 
• Create custom reports and output using the "Report Writer"
• Generation of Manufacturing Outputs
  
  

• Create a Complex shaped PC Board with a multitude of arched notches 
• Become familiar with auto placement outside the Board, Copy circuit, Polar array placement capabilities, and more 
• Place Components using Cross Probing from Design Capture 
• Setting up Design Rules through dialog's such as Net Classes and Net Properties 
• Setup for Autoroute 
• Auto route the Design as per the Design rules 
  Use Report Writer to create a custom bill of material, and report of other Design parameters
• Manufacturing Outputs creation (Creation of Gerber, NC Drill and viewing the same with Gerbtool)