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Mentor Graphics, VIA Collaborate to Deliver PCB Reference Designs
March 3, 2005 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
WILSONVILLE, Ore. — Mentor Graphics is collaborating with VIA Technologies, a Taiwan-based company, to provide reference designs for use with the Expedition Series design flow for VIA's P4M800/Pro, PT894/Pro and K8T890/Pro next-generation chipsets. These reference designs, only available through VIA, accelerate the creation of computer motherboard designs using VIA devices with the Expedition design flow, and enable Expedition users to reuse design data for high-speed or complex designs, significantly reducing design risk and time, and increasing design quality.
"This collaborative effort with VIA enables our customers to meet and exceed performance and time-to-market goals," says Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division. "We are providing our customers with yet another tool to achieve optimal system performance, while accelerating design processes and improving overall design quality of their motherboard designs."
Microprocessors, and their associated chipsets, continue to increase in density, speed and pin count. This makes it increasingly difficult for PCB designers to meet interconnect timing and signal-integrity constraint challenges while placing and routing these complex microprocessor components on the board. To facilitate design-in of VIA chipsets, VIA provides their customers with motherboard reference designs for popular microprocessors. These reference designs include schematic symbols, footprints and fan-outs for all parts on the board, including the VIA parts.
"Customer demand for Mentor Graphics Expedition Series continues to grow in our market," says Weber Chuang, director of technical marketing at VIA. "We see tremendous value in providing this service to our customers that use Mentor Graphics tools."
For more information on the VIA Reference Designs for Expedition, please click here.