Date: 17/05/2012

Mentor Graphics' PCB design-through-manufacturing tech used by PCD

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced that Professional Circuit Designs (PCD), Ltd., based in Winchester, U.K. has standardized on the Mentor Graphics PCB design-through-manufacturing product flow, including the Valor NPI tool. PCD specializes in PCB place & route, schematic entry, pre- and post-layout of PCB signal integrity simulation, library development and now new product introduction (NPI) design checking for PCB manufacturing and assembly.

PCD, Ltd. uses the Mentor Graphics PADS, Board Station XE, Expedition Enterprise, HyperLynx SI, and Valor NPI products. Now, with the integration of the Valor NPI tool, PCD customers will be able to capture all PCB design-for-manufacturing, fabrication, assembly and test data into a unified data structure with the Valor ODB++ data exchange format. As the de facto standard for unified data exchange between PCB design and manufacturing, ODB++ establishes a continuous, automated and traceable engineering process that reduces time and eliminates costly errors.

"We've invested in Mentor Graphics PCB technologies for the past 15 years and the seamless integration of Mentor's PCB tools with Valor tools is a major benefit to our customers, who are constantly seeking new methodologies to compete in today's time-sensitive market," stated Paul Gamble, managing director of PCD, Ltd. "Our collaboration with Mentor, as the industry leader for PCB design-through-manufacturing solutions, allows us to help solve our customers' challenges with best-in-class technologies."

"We're honored to have an established partnership with PCD, Ltd. as the leading PCB consultancy in the U.K.," stated Dan Boncella, director of marketing, Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division. "By providing PCD's customers with our latest design-through-manufacturing technologies, we are enabling engineers and designers to cost-effectively design the industry's most complex, highest performance, and densest PCBs."