Mentor的XtremeAR：允许15台计算机联网同时自动布线

原来的Xtreme允许15台计算机联网手动布线，现在的XtremeAR可以15台计算机自动布线。呵呵，不知道复杂到什么程度的板子才需用到这样强的功能。

Mentor Graphics’ Industry-first XtremeAR Reduces Auto-Routing Times on Large PCBs from Days to Hours
WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 10, 2006 - Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT), the market and technology leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions, today announced the delivery of the XtremeAR? product targeted at electronics companies designing large PCBs. 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."

Xtreme Design Technology

Over the past years, Mentor has continued to focus on its technology leadership initiative, which has resulted in several highly innovative developments. The company's patented Xtreme design technology provides the core for the industry's only capability to support multiple clients on a LAN or WAN network to simultaneously update a centrally located PCB design database. In November of 2004, Mentor announced the first application of the Xtreme design technology, XtremePCB?. This application enabled multiple CAD designers to simultaneously perform interactive place and route on a PCB with real time updates to a common database. XtremePCB was targeted at users performing manual routing and resulted in design cycle time reductions of 40-70 percent during the layout process.

XtremeAR is the next application of the patented Xtreme design technology and is targeted at users who are able to auto-route their large boards. XtremeAR uses the processors from up to 15 computers on a LAN or WAN network working simultaneously on the same PCB database. This cuts the routing times by up to ten times and can utilize second and third shift computer resources that would ordinarily be idle. Not only do these savings result in shorter design cycle times and higher designer productivity, but also can result in better design quality and system performance by giving designers time to run several trial component placements and routing scenarios and then pick the best results.

"Our unique and patented Xtreme design technology can now help companies who use auto-routing on large, mostly digital boards," said Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor's Systems Design Division. "We worked closely with several of our customers to develop this application and it is meeting their most optimistic cycle time and productivity expectations."

XtremeAR is available now and utilizes the same licenses as XtremePCB clients, giving users the flexibility to use the Xtreme design technology on either manual layout or auto-routing depending on their needs.

小编有时间给我们讲讲XtremePCB 的安装、设置和应用吧。

期待啊！

另外，上面说XtremeAR is available now and utilizes the same licenses as XtremePCB clients, giving users the flexibility to use the Xtreme design technology on either manual layout or auto-routing depending on their needs.

是不是可以理解为如果我能用XtremePCB （当然是破解的）那么我找到XtremeAR 安装上就一样可以用呢?

XtremePCB和XtremeAR是包含在Expedition PCB里的，并没有单独的安装程序，你只要有它的许可就能用了。2005.05和以前的版本里只包含XtremePCB。

XtremePCB的使用很简单的：

1.先将要共同Layout的文件目录共享，要保证其他人有读写的权限。

2.启动Xtreme Design Session，他会提示让你选择一个PCB文件，选择要Layout的PCB文件后，就进入Xtreme Design Session界面，不要关掉它。

3.然后运行Expedition PCB，在Select the desired product license的时候都要选择Xtreme Design Client，然后打开那个共享的pcb文件，在Handle里输入自己的Handle（随便输，就是一个标记，像你的名字一样，和别人区别开来就是了），这样就进入了Xtreme Design Client（注意此时Xtreme Design Session里就会有你的大名了），他和Expedition PCB几乎是一样的，只是有些操作受限而已。

其他人都只运行第3步就行了。然后大家就可以像平常使用Expedition PCB一样操作了，只不过能实时看到别人的操作，有点像玩联网游戏。在显示控制的General页有XDS的相关显示选项，你自己玩玩吧。如果想把某块区域划归己有，画一块Xtreme Protected Area就行了。不过郁闷的是它是协作时的，别人也可以把你画的Xtreme Protected Area删掉或抢为他有。

我们这小公司,单枪匹马画线路板,XtremePCB这功能是用不上了！要是我们这论坛通过互联网把XtremePCB这功能用上,那就方便大家学习了,呵呵,,,

哈哈，我成功了。小公司怎么了，也可以提高效率啊。成倍的。

什么时候能有带AR的exp破解版一定要试一试！

谢谢了！

哈,并行计算,厉害

通过互联网来协作也没问题的，不过我现在搞不了的一点是如何简单而且安全的实现文件的共享，我以前是用的一个虚拟局域网的工具和深圳一兄弟测试了一下，感觉还可以。但需要几方都安装这个工具，我想最好能利用WIN己有工具来实现，这样简单一些。不知有没有哪位兄弟会玩这个?

再顶，期待！

有时间学习一下。哈哈啊哈

Mentor的联网布线确实是一大创举，不过，上次我做一块8000多Pin的12层板，做到后面会出现无法进行布线，但是能看到别人在做，郁闷。而且速度也会慢下来。

不知道是网速还是电脑计算能力问题，过于复杂的板子做起来会比较慢。一般来说使用联网布线的板子都是比较复杂的，简单的板子做起来的话跟Allegro相比没什么优势。

小编可以用VPN技术啊，windows 2003作服务器可以支撑起来

这个老早就搞过了，但是至今没有机会实践啊！郁闷。当初还花了我时间去配置的，后面发现其实没怎么用