PRIMARY COURSE TOPICS

You Will Learn How to:

• Define the main concepts and constraints hierarchy of Constraint Manager.
• Enable Constraint Manager as a constraint system in the Xpedition flow.
• Find and filter data in the design database
• Navigate and manipulate the constraints hierarchy
• Use the spreadsheets, toolbars, preferences, and options efficiently
• Reuse already defined constraints in other designs using Constraint Templates
• Partition the design data using Net Classes, Constraint Classes, and Schemes
• Set up mechanical constraints such as trace widths, via assignments, and clearances
• Assign physical high-speed constraints including minimum and maximum delays, matched delays, delay formulas, custom, and complex topologies, differential pairs, and parallelism rules to nets or groups of nets
• Auto-route the constrained nets and evaluate the routing results
• Manage constraints in Constraint Manager for different user groups
• Set up design and display configuration and preferences
• Run CES diagnostics for consistency and integrity of constraint data

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using Constraint Manager software. Hands-on lab topics include:

• Overview of the software

• User Interface

  • Using the CM Browser and the Spreadsheets
  • Editing Data in Spreadsheets
  • Interfacing with the PCB Data

• Constraint Manager in the design flow and Setting up Mechanical Constraints

  • Using Constraint Manager from front-end and back-end
  • Creating and Populating Net Classes
  • Setting up Trace and Via Properties

• Setting up Mechanical Constraints

  • Setting up clearance rules
  • Setting up package clearances

• Setting up Mechanical Constraints

  • Setting up Schemes
  • Rules areas in Xpedition PCB Layout

• Net properties and Constraint classes

  • Setting up and populating constraint classes
  • Setting up net properties and topologies
  • Electrical Nets generation

• Differential Pairs and constraint templates

  • Setting up differential pairs
  • Differential Impedance
  • Routing differential pairs in Xpedition PCB Layout
  • Creating and applying constraint templates

• Length and Delay Constraints

  • Creating Matched Delay Constraints
  • Setting up Delay Formula Constraints
  • Routing the nets with delay constraints

• Parallelism and Crosstalk

  • Setting up Parallelism Rules
  • Routing with parallelism rules