As system design companies deal with the trials of today's economic environment, they face the dual challenges of finding ways to improve the efficiency of their product development and manufacturing ...

Integrating advanced fpgas on a pcb is becoming increasingly challenging, with issues including generating optimal fpga pin assignments that do not add layers to a pcb or increase the time required to ...

Intelligent design of the FPGA interface is an imperative when using FPGA devices to meet leading-edge system interface requirements such as DDR3. An FPGA interface design without PCB process ...

A tool linking programmable logic design and PCB layout has been unveiled by Mentor Graphics. John Isaac, director of market development at Mentor, said the I/O Designer software would “provide for ...

Using SPI interface to free FPGA routing resources is allowing over 90% utilization, fast timing closure and supports modular design approach without consequences. When doing designs with FPGA you are ...

When using PADS Professional Premium, designers have access to standard PCB design functionality, such as schematic definition and physical layout, as well previously optional add-on features (now ...

Charles Pfeil is an Engineering Director in the Systems Design Division at Mentor Graphics. My first experience with computerized printed-circuit-board (PCB) design was in 1978 when I acquired two ...