Mentor Graphics PADS VX.2 Standard Plus Schematic Design Integrated schematic capture for creative, top-quality product design. Schematic Capture Ease Of Use Product Demo PADS® provides a complete solution for electronic product creation, definition, and reuse. Capturing a design should be simple, easy to accomplish, and error-free. With PADS you can take concerns like cost and reliability into consideration from the beginning of the product-creation process and create a clean design that is easy to verify and manage.