{"id":312,"date":"2012-03-14T03:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=312"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:18:34","slug":"great-things-in-small-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2012\/03\/14\/great-things-in-small-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Things in Small Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I visit many customers throughout the year, and read press releases from many of them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen some of the largest, toughest designs completed with PADS.\u00a0 But sometime I see great designs that are small.\u00a0 One of the constant business drivers for many customers is miniaturization \u2013 getting the same, or usually more functionality in a small size.<\/p>\n<p>One such design that came across my desk recently came from RTX in Denmark, which recently designed the world\u2019s smallest Wi-Fi device with PADS software.\u00a0 See the press release at <a href=\"http:\/\/elek-data.dk\/artikler\/rtx-klar-med-ultrakompakt-wifi-modul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/elek-data.dk\/artikler\/rtx-klar-med-ultrakompakt-wifi-modul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Designing tough, large design with complex high-speed constraints requires specific features from your design tools, so does designing smaller designs where space is at a premium.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more on how PADS can help you with all of your design challenges, check out our PADS 9.4 Evaluation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pads.com\/buy?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.pads.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve designed a unique product with PADS, please share with us.\u00a0 Post a link to information about it here!<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visit many customers throughout the year, and read press releases from many of them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen some of the&#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-312","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\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}