PADS Router

Duration: 1 Day

Course Part Number: 213098

Description

The PADS Router course teaches you the workflow of completing designs using the latest version of Mentor Graphics PADS Router. You are guided through the steps of completing a PCB design started in PADS Layout. Course highlights include placing parts, routing a printed circuit board using manual, interactive and automatic routing modes, and verifying the design.

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

• Customize and work with the PADS Router user interface
• Place components
• Set an autorouting strategy
• Assign Properties, Rules and Routing Preferences for the Design and its Objects
• Route, Fanout and Optimize nets by Interactive Selection
• Use the Command Window to View Reports
• Set Layer Direction, Corner and Quality Options for Optimal Routing

Hands-On Labs

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

• Using the PADS Router link (from PADS Layout)
• Interface Usage and Customization
• Setting Design Options
• Preparing Batch Routing
• Setting Routing Rules and Limitations in the Properties Interface
• Dispersing Vias, Routing and Optimizing
• Generating and Viewing Reports
• Routing a Design

Prerequisites

• PADS Layout training or familiarity with PADS Layout software
• Autorouting experience is helpful but not required

Related Courses

• PADS Logic
• PADS Layout
• PADS Logic Web
• PADS Layout Web
• HyperLynx Signal Integrity Analysis

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