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Video: Sr. Product Marketing Manager Steve Shively discusses the benefits that Board Station customers can achieve by deploying the Board Station XE flow.

Customers love it too! “We’ve been evaluating Board Station XE for a few months now and really like what we see. We are particularly looking forward to getting access to the new functionality so as to shorten design cycle times, improve productivity, reduce production costs, and develop PCBs with new functionality, such as embedded passives.”

Mick Harvey, principal hardware engineer, SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems

The global business environment drives increasing pressure on Board Station® customers to stay competitive. As a result, companies need to get their products to market faster and improve design productivity while designing more complex products.

Board Station XE enables Board Station customers to meet these challenges. And all while lowering the costs and risks of adopting new technology.

Key Benefits

Shortens Time-to-Market

  • Enables simultaneous design for globally dispersed design teams
  • Offers integrated multi-discipline design tools for improved design and process efficiency
  • Can be rapidly deployed by current Board Station customers

Improves Productivity

  • Includes integrated autorouting and correct-by-construction methodology based on industry-leading, AutoActiveT physical design tools
  • Facilitates rapid PCB design with innovative RF, Flex, & Embedded Passives technologies
  • Offers advanced design capabilities for dynamic plane generation, design reuse, and variants

Reduces Cost and Risk

  • Protects investment by utilizing existing Board Station libraries, library development tools, & library management processes
  • Minimizes the costs of adopting a new flow by leveraging existing licenses
  • Requires only minimal ramp-up & training time
  • Co-exists with existing Board Station Flows so it can be deployed incrementally

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Board Station Flows

How BSXE leverages and extends Board Station

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Flow Explained

Video describing the BSXE Flow (5:39 mins)

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