Thotaka maintains a dedicated electronic CAD Bureau that supports any customer requirements apart from servicing the total product development needs .
The CAD Bureau also services the complete hardware engineering requirements of customers such as hardware architecture, expert advisory, Schematic Capture, PCB Layout, Bill-of-Material Optimization, Signal Integrity Analysis, Thermal Analysis, Test Fixture Development and Design for Manufacture.
Areas of Expertise:
1. Ultra low-noise and Mixed-Signal board design integrating Analog/IF Frontends and data convertors
2. Ultra high-speed: Upto 40Gbps on board for multiple XAUI. Design for PCI-Express Gen3, USB 3.0, AURORA, SATA and RapidIO
3. High speed parallel for DDR3 and memory like FPGA interfaces
4. Design using via-in-pad, ultra-fine pitch BGA and microvias
5. Fast prototype board development
6. DFT and DFM for volume production
Tools Used:
The CAD Bureau uses the toolset from Mentor Graphics(unless otherwise specified by customer) the default tool-set is the following:
1. DxDesigner for Schematic entry
2. PADS Layout and High Speed Auto-router
3. HyperLynx Analog with EzWave for Simulation
4. HyperLynx LineSim for Pre-layout SI Analysis
5. HyperLynx BoardSim EXT with Post-layout SI Analysis
6. HyperLynx Thermal for Thermal Analysis
