{"id":1387,"date":"2013-06-05T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:20:09","slug":"selective-autorouting-to-increase-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2013\/06\/05\/selective-autorouting-to-increase-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective Autorouting to Increase Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autorouting is a nasty word to many designers.\u00a0 Many would not be caught dead doing anything other than interactively routing the complete design.\u00a0 Their reasoning may be sound \u2013 but dated.\u00a0 Past generation routers would run a long time, only to leave a design with blocked channels, too many vias, traces that looped around the board, not to mention poor, if any, adherence to high-speed rules.\u00a0 They would leave many unconnects, and\/or DRC conflicts that would need to be resolved manually.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s routers \u2013 at least\u00a0 PADS\u2019, have been designed to deliver high completion rates, with manufacturability in mind.\u00a0 Minimal cleanup is needed after the routing.\u00a0 Plus \u2013 you can control the routing.\u00a0 Select only the sections, or nets, or components you want autorouted.\u00a0 Interactively route the rest!\u00a0\u00a0 The autorouter is a tool.\u00a0 Use it selectively and intelligently to increase your productivity!<\/p>\n<p>There is a great <a title=\"video here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pads.com\/resources\/overview\/pads-es-suite-autorouter-9d9e6db1-086a-4ea2-b599-dff3a8ccb52e?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video here <\/a>to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autorouting is a nasty word to many designers.\u00a0 Many would not be caught dead doing anything other than interactively routing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/10364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}