Designers need the same levels of design productivity for flex that they have for their rigid boards. In these highly competitive markets time-to-market is paramount and product life cycles are short. For example, most handheld digital cameras now include a single rigid-flex board folded into the form factor. Now the use of flex PCBs is pervasive in cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras and most other space constrained, high functionality consumer products. These limited applications were designed using mostly manual, layout methods. The use of flex PCBs is not new but until recently had been relegated to very specialized uses such as automotive dashboards and other flexible connection methods such as laptops. I don’t follow the Mentor PCB Communities as closely as I should so I may or may not see a problem if it is posted there.Mentor Graphics is meeting the growing need of customers in the telecom and consumer electronics industries who are increasingly adopting flex PCB technology for applications requiring high functionality in small, handheld form factors. So if you have a problem, drop me an e-mail. That said, I try to help people when they run into problems with anything I’ve written but my ability to help is usually bounded by whatever I am currently working on and the commitments I am held accountable for. They are provided “as-is” and you use them at your own risk. Basically it means that you can’t call Mentor’s customer support for help with any of these scripts. The disclaimer and statement of support are still valid so I continue to use it. ' # including any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness #īack in 1993 when I started posting AMPLE code to the MUG PCB mailing list, Mentor’s legal department asked me to add this disclaimer to everything I made freely available. ' # with respect to "freeware", either expressed or implied, # ' # is provided "as is" and Mentor Graphics makes no warranties # ' # Corporation provides as a courtesy to our users. ' # The following software is "freeware" which Mentor Graphics # In all of the examples I post you will find a header similar to this (which came from a VBscript source file I posted recently): ' This software is NOT officially supported by Mentor Graphics. Originally created for the Board Station family of products, the Userware Toolbox is now focused on scripts for the Enterprise Expedition suite of applications. The Userware Toolbox is a collection of scripts and utilities that have been written to augment and enhance the Mentor Graphics suite of PCB applications.
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