PADS Professional

PADS Professional is an affordable, intelligent, and integrated PCB design and verification flow for hardware engineers and small workgroups that delivers compatibility with Xpedition technology and extended collaboration for PCB engineering projects

1. Electro-Mechanical Co-design

Quickly and accurately communicate design intent between electrical and mechanical CAD systems. With PADS Professional both the PCB and the mechanical engineer stay in sync, leveraging best-in-class data exchange standards, making collaboration convenient, accurate, and effective

2. PCB Routing Automation

PADS Professional delivers unique technologies that combine ease-of-use with highly automated PCB routing functionality resulting in high quality and accelerated time-to-results, even for complex PCB designs

3. Rigid-Flex

Design and validate complex rigid-flex structures with the correct-by-construction environment of PADS Professional simplifying the design process of creating complex rigid-flex stack-ups

4. Analog/Mixed-Signal Simulaiton

Design and validate complex rigid-flex structures with the correct-by-construction environment of PADS Professional simplifying the design process of creating complex rigid-flex stack-ups

5. Signal Integrity Analysis

Increasingly fast edge rates in integrated circuits cause detrimental high-speed effects, even in PCB design running at low operating frequencies. As these ICs switch faster, we see boards suffer from signal degradation including over/undershoot, ringing, glitching, crosstalk, and timing problems

6. Design For Manufacturing

With integrated design for manufacturing analysis, PCB engineers can quickly and thoroughly identify PCB fabrication and assembly violations before transitioning to manufacturing, resulting in lowered costs and avoidance of delays

7. RF Design

The full PADS Professional flow enables you to design, validate, and manufacture PCB-centric systems, including the creation of intelligent RF structures natively within the tool set