Mentor reduces Auto-Routing Times

XtremeAR, Mentor's second product to use the company's patented Xtreme design technology, enables the simultaneous execution of auto-routing on up to 15 processors, thus cutting routing times on large boards from days to hours. The significant productivity improvement and design cycle time reduction improves time-to-market for large designs, and also improves quality and system performance by enabling designers to perform several design trials and choose the best results. "As an award winning service bureau, our customers are continuing to require shorter design cycle times," stated Nick Barbin, president of Optimum Design Associates."Now with XtremeAR, we can reduce our layout times on large boards by days and even weeks. This puts us at a competitive advantage and enables our customer to get to market faster."