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DxDesigner for PADS

Duration: 3 Days

Course Part Number: 238783

Course Overview

DxDesigner® for PADS® Flow course will 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 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
Modifying existing schematics
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

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Windows or UNIX operating systems

Key Topics

Link to Student Workbook: TOC.pdf

For more information:

InnoFour BV

Twentepoort Oost 61-02

7609 RG ALMELO

The Netherlands

tel +31 546 454 530

fax +31 546 453 006

training@innofour.com