Board Station EDIF/AP210 Interfaces

• Provide product extensions to Mentor Graphics Board Station for EDIF and AP210 support

BENEFITS

• Commercially supported standard interfaces for manufacturing minimizes/eliminates expensive and error prone CAD translation
• APIprovides programmatic interface to Board Station database - reduction in support

• Standard, well-defined procedural interface to board station that runs outside the Mentor environment
• Develop EDIF translator with Electronic Tools Company leveraging existing technology
• Based on CIF 1.4 (connectivity) and proposed CIF schematic extensions
• Beta version available
• Commercially available 3Q97

• Development support from SCRA, Intellicorp, and Mitron
• MGCAD model is an enhanced version of original ECAD model developer for PreAmp program
• Uses ITI's PDE/Library
• Multiple plot projects for product and ISO standard validation starting 1Q97
• Production version of translator to be available after international standard status is achieved