The Advanced Routing Software is included in the following Designer Suites: Ceramic / MCM Suite RF Designer Suite Lead Frame Suite BGA Suite Flex Suite Master PCB Master RF Master Ceramic MCM Master Lead Frame Master BGA This product may also be purchased separately as an add-on module to any Designer Suite.

Routing Tools for the layout Professional looking for accuracy, real-time DRC, and flexibility without limitations

Provides many advanced tuning, filleting, chamfering, progressive chamfering, neck downs, tapering and advanced trace editing commands. It provides length tuning though adding accordions, trombones, compound arcs and arc radius modification and has global tuning capabilities for accordions and trombones by tuning a selection of nets at once to match all the nets to the longest net or to a specific length. It also has the ability to automatically converge the length of a net being tuned to the length of another selected net.

Routing is CDS’s object based routing system that “hugs” objects with exact clearance, and speeds up the trace routing process.  

For Dense BGA, CSP and other package auto routing, please see Interactive Routing.

Key Features Include:

1. Easy differential Pair routing.
   
   

2. Many types of length tuning.
   
   

3. Trace segment sliding.
   
   

4. Any angle advanced manual routing with on-line DRC, hugs objects and follows angles of originating pad.
   
   

5. Complex stair vias for micro via technology.
   
   

6. No limits to routing geometries.
   

All forms of trace routing are accomplished with “power any angle” routing features like…

• Trace length Tuning using Accordions, Trombones or Arcs.

• Real time DRC checking in the manual router.

• Automatic and manual flex compatible tapers.

• Microwave corner Miters. 

• Automatic filleting or chamfering of the whole design. 

• Multi-layer routing command places vias with a double pick.

• Uses trace widths read in from a schematic netlist and auto-senses which layer to route on automatically. 

• Select 2 rat lines for differential pair routing (See a demo on Differential Pair).

• For hispeed routing, the system supports differential pairs, length matching.

• Automatic length matching using Accordion Tuners of many nets simultaneously.

• The routing system features drilled and build-up via technologies, with support for through hole, blind, buried, and stairstepped via constructions.

• Ability to route traces by using polygon boundaries. This type of routing also facilitates the use of true arc and true RF mitered corners.