Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT), the leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions, today announced its new Expedition™ Enterprise flow for PCB systems design. This flow enables large electronics companies to leverage their multi-disciplined design team resources, and create and provide access to their intellectual property on a global basis. It also allows companies to integrate their design data with corporate PLM, and supply chain and manufacturing systems, as well as to communicate with outsourced design and manufacturing. Expedition Enterprise can significantly improve competitiveness and performance by combining advanced PCB design technology with library and design data management, and a unified constraint editing system. "To better serve the needs of our automotive customers, we had to address the challenges, as well as leverage the benefits of working in a global enterprise," stated Rick Sturgeon, executive director, Engineering Operations and PBU IT, Johnson Controls, Inc., a Fortune 70 company that is a global leader in automotive systems, building controls, and facility management. "We needed to improve operational efficiency through reduced design cycle time and product costs, with improved design quality. The Expedition Enterprise design flow enables us to leverage our design team resources and intellectual property to achieve our objectives." Expedition Enterprise Flow Overview Expedition Enterprise addresses the challenges of the global enterprise, including intellectual property management, supply chain integration, and design team management across multiple sites. It integrates and manages the system design flow and enables seamless data transfer among design teams, improving designer productivity and design team collaboration, while facilitating communication with the corporate enterprise. This new solution offers improved library management which simplifies supply chain management, increases library quality, and reduces product costs. Expedition Enterprise also integrates FPGA and PCB design flows, allowing concurrent design that leverages the FPGA's I/O flexibility, and addresses routing and timing challenges, and facilitates common design constraint management. Expedition Enterprise is available on multiple hardware platforms to support existing hardware investments "Expedition Enterprise is the culmination of recent technology acquisitions combined with significant engineering effort to deliver the next-generation PCB systems design solution," stated Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics' Systems Design Division. "Expedition Enterprise was created in collaboration with our global customers to solve their enterprise business and technical design challenges."