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High Speed Design in Mozaix and Pantheon

 

Xtent Technology Rules EditorHarness the power of high speed design with the Xtent Technology Rules Editor, an integrated single source tool for the management of design rules and constraints in Mozaix and Pantheon. Accessible throughout the design cycle, Xtent allows for quick creation, manipulation, and assignment of design rules and constraints in an integrated application.  Xtent’s spreadsheet format provides a robust and flexible environment, which includes visual cues for layer stackup and padstack construction, and color coded highlights to indicate rule or constraint violations and changes in layer rules. In a real-time bidirectional exchange of information between Xtent and Pantheon, actual lengths of From-To and Signal Path nets are displayed, with automatic select and tune of one or more of these objects enabled by a single mouse click. Likewise, this powerful information Auto-Defined Signal Pathexchange is available in Mozaix, where complete rule definitions, assignments and high-speed constraints can be defined and annotated to and from the Pantheon layout.

 

Xtent includes two high speed 

Auto-tuned Signal Path
A Signal Path in Pantheon, after auto-definition (top) and after auto-tune (bottom).
constraint options: Signal Path Class and Signal Path. Licensed separately for high speed design environments, this specialized design flow includes the ability to define Signal Path lengths, net lengths or pin-to-pin (From-To) length constraints using formulas and functions, as well as the ability to auto-define Signal Path objects through user-specified pattern criteria. Once a Signal Path is defined, its length values can be formulated through a Signal Path Class, or directly to one or more Signal Paths at a time. The added structure of a signal path class can simplify constraints for large groups of nets to a single rule assignment, which can be matched to a specific “sample” net or signal path class value. This fluidity of value specifications offered in Xtent makes constraint management easier than ever before.

 

Intercept’s RF, Hybrid and High-Speed design products are available for purchase with Pantheon, Intercept’s PCB/Hybrid/RF layout design application, and Mozaix, Intercept’s schematic design application..