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Siemens EDA’s mission is to help you engineer a smarter future faster. Read our latest blog posts to keep up to date on the latest tools, trends, methodologies and offerings in IC, advanced packaging and PCB systems electronics design, verification and manufacturing.

Electronic Systems Design

Care about product quality and reliability? Commit to it!

February 22, 2016

Significant changes in product quality and reliability typically require high-level changes in the way you look at the entire product...

Electronic Systems Design

PCB Tech Talk Podcast: Bridging the Gap between ECAD and MCAD

February 18, 2016

Where does collaboration with MCAD fit into your PCB design flow? Are you still encountering communication barriers between electrical and...

By John McMillan

Design with Calibre

More Than Moore: Finally Crossing the Chasm?

February 15, 2016

By Michael White, Mentor Graphics Will fan-out wafer-level packaging be the impetus that pushes 3D-IC into mainstream acceptance?

By Design With Calibre

Electronic Systems Design

3D PCB Design – Far from Flat

February 15, 2016

In my placement blog series I talked about the old days when we as PCB designers used “paper dolls” to...

Electronic Systems Design

Real ECAD/MCAD collaboration supports multiple MCAD tools – not just one

February 08, 2016

Do you remember the old days of exporting and importing DXF files to ensure that the printed circuit board mates...

By John McMillan

Design with Calibre

An Automated Solution for Voltage-Aware DRC

February 02, 2016

By Dina Medhat, Mentor Graphics Automated voltage propagation with Calibre PERC makes it easier to comply with voltage-aware DRC spacing...

By Design With Calibre

Electronic Systems Design

What You Need To Feel Confident Before Sending Your PCB To Manufacturing

February 01, 2016

In my last post, Creating Reliable, High-Quality Products is Less About Design and More About Manufacturing, I described how the...

Tessent Solutions

Automotive Semiconductor Test

January 27, 2016

By Steve Pateras, Mentor Graphics Ensure quality and reliability in automotive ICs with the newest technologies in silicon test.

By Tessent Solutions

Design with Calibre

Resetting Expectations on Multi-Patterning Decomposition and Checking Part 2

January 25, 2016

By David Abercrombie, Mentor Graphics Triple and quadruple patterning can baffle even the most experienced designers. David Abercrombie has some...

By Design With Calibre