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 BoardStation 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 BoardStation. 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, Manufacturing data 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 

• Manage design database, references and releases
• Set location maps 
• Create logic symbols and its attributes
• Use of Properties to create detailed specifications 
• Schematic editing Flat/Hierarchical 
• Schematic check 
• Using Bus and Bundles 
• Using PCB personality module - Creating technology file, Net/Pin Types, Electrical Classes etc. 
• Copying across sheets, Using blocks, Using Frames and Expressions 
• Use Design View Point Editor to create design specific rule sets 
• Usage of advanced editing features. 
  
  

• Working with Design Manager 
• Symbol Creation 
• Schematic Capture - Editing features 
• Modifying and adding properties. 
• PCB personality module 
• Schematic/Sheet checks 
• Creating View Points 
• Tips to speedup schematic entry process 

• Create library structure and links 
• Use layer attributes
• Create Geometry's - includes Generic, Pads and Vias, Components, Board, Fanout etc
• Access symbols from library 
• Create Catalogs 
• Create Part Numbers 
• Modifying Part Numbers
• Creating Artwork Order 
• Packaging Design - Editing symbols 
• Adding parts - like decoupling capacitors 
• Build PCB Database 
• Resolve geometries 
  

• Creating Generic geometry 
• Creating Pads and Vias 
• Creating Board geometry 
• Creating Component geometry
• Creating part numbers 
• Pin Mapping 
• Modifying geometry / Part number
• Creating Fanout geometry 
• Packaging a design 
• Build a PCB database 
• Change references, Part Numbers, Geometry's and packaging design 
• Resolving Geometry 
• Back Annotation 

• Set parameters for placement
• Placement of Components on to a Board - Interactive
• Placement of Components on to a Board - Schematic 
• Mapping Components 
• Automatic Placement, Placement Sites 
• Improving Placement using Placement Histogram and Swap
• Modifying placement 
• Setup routing parameters 
• Using routing histograms
• Changing net order 
• Interactive routing
• Automatic routing 
• Creating probes and automating test point process 
• Use tear drops 
• Area Fills and Split power plan 
• Saving and retrieving design objects / traces 

• Generating drill/Milling table and data 
• Setup artwork order, Generate aperture table and Gerber data 
• Reference designator management 
• Create Panels 
• Simulating drill and artwork data
• Creation of Bill of Material 

• Use AutoActive layout environment 
• Improve placement - swapping, modifying component placement 
• Setup routing parameters and rules 
• Route interactive using Multiplow, Fanout etc 
• Use advanced routing features - Multi Width, Rule by area, Copy Circuits etc 
• Use automatic router 
• Use highspeed routing options 
• Using highspeed design rules 
• Routing differential pairs 
  

• Invoking and closing AutoActive routing environment 
• Complete setup and rule definitions 
• Moving, Swapping to improve placement 
• Routing interactively 
• Automatic routing 
• Creating dynamic area fills 
  

• Manage reference designators 
• Create drill data
• Crate milling data
• Create Gerber artwork 
• Use thermal ties 
• Create Panels 
• Crate Assembly drawing 
• Create Fabrication drawings
• Use thieving patterns and test coupons
• Simulation of drill data 
• Simulation of artworks 
• Create Bill of Material 
• Release a design 
• What is Signal Integrity
• Basics of Signal Integrity 
• What we need to control 
• What we can really control 
• How do we control 
  

• Creating Generic geometry 
• Creating Pads and Vias 
• Creating Board geometry 
• Creating Component geometry
• Creating part numbers 
• Pin Mapping 
• Modifying geometry / Part number
• Creating Fanout geometry 
• Packaging a design 
• Build a PCB database 
• Change references, Part Numbers, Geometry's and packaging design 
• Resolving Geometry 
• Back Annotation