WILSONVILLE, USA: Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the availability of the next-generation PADS flow with the introduction of PADS 9.0.

This significantly-enhanced release of PADS flow adds new levels of functionality, scalability and integration, enabling designers to leverage many of Mentor’s unique and innovative technologies for design, analysis, manufacturing and multi-disciplined collaboration. With the scalable PADS 9.0 flow, users can cost-effectively design their products from standard to the industry’s most complex, highest performance, and densest PCBs.

Functionality now integrated and available in the scalable flow includes the addition of manufacturing and collaboration tools, and the world’s most powerful thermal, signal and power integrity analysis, as well as many core design entry and layout enhancements.

The PADS flow provides maximum designer productivity and reduces time to market while implementing the most advanced PCB fabrication and IC/FPGA technologies into electronic products.

“The release of PADS 9.0 exemplifies Mentor’s continuing commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology to the world’s largest PCB design user community,” said Dan Boncella, director of marketing, Systems Design Division of Mentor Graphics. “PADS offers a low cost of entry, yet delivers high performance that exceeds any other desktop PCB design solution on the market.”