Day 1

A comprehensive understanding of the SPECCTRA Idea.

This is the key to our success with SPECCTRA.

We use and teach SPECCTRA as we understand it to be originally architected by Cooper and Chyan followed by all the current enhancements from the Engineering Team at Cadence.

Topics include:

• The SPECCTRA Idea for solving autorouting.
• Why SPECCTRA is not an autorouter and why it works.
• The Routing Cycle.
• Critical nets and fanout - do I pre-route?
• What about Power and Ground?
• Routeability approaches.
• Controlling quality in SPECCTRA - making it look hand-routed.
• Understanding routing problems, feedback and solutions.
• A comprehensive conceptual tour of all SPECCTRA Command families and their application to Design Success.
• Reporting and assessing routing results.
• Recovering from routing failure.
• Sample DO Files for Reference.

Day 2

Hi-SPEED Detailed Strategies and DO File Development - the Real Thing

We successfully autoroute many boards thought unrouteable by an autorouter. Day 2 walks you through the details.

Day 2 will provide actual examples of Hi-SPEED boards and the development of the strategies and DO File commands to successfully route these designs.

Seminar includes the new V15 diffpair algorithms and route by layer-pair commands.

Topics include:

• Hi-SPEED Constraint Management
• What makes a good design good and how this relates to constraints definitions and expectations.
• Hi-SPEED Timing Paths and Relative Strobe/Path timing.
• Hi-Density BGA autorouting.
• Blind and buried via usage.
• Crosstalk strategies and effective successful management.
• Complex topology management and length/timing.
• XNet definitions and management.
• Virtual pin autorouting.
• Differential pairs and differential wires.
• Layer reduction and density solutions.
• And much more.
• Hi-SPEED DO Files are included.