{"id":68,"date":"2009-07-27T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:16:50","slug":"go-right-to-the-top-ask-andy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2009\/07\/27\/go-right-to-the-top-ask-andy\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Right to the Top: &#8220;Ask Andy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>As users of EDA tools, when you have questions, you probably go to one of two sources:<span>\u00a0 <\/span>customer support or your sale person. <span>\u00a0<\/span>These are two valuable resources, and depending on what information you\u2019re looking for, the correct source of information. <span>\u00a0<\/span>But what about \u201cgoing right to the top\u201d?<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>What if you have a higher level business issue you want a response to?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Welcome to \u201cAsk Andy\u201d!<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This forum on Mentor\u2019s PCB Community gives you direct access to Andy Perlowski, the PADS Product Line Director. <span>\u00a0<\/span>He\u2019s available to answer any of your questions.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>(Please remember, technical questions should still be sent to CSD, and sales questions to your sales person)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Andy will be sure to give you direct answers to you questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>Ask Andy can be found at:<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/communities.mentor.com\/mgcx\/community\/pcb\/design_tasks\/pads\/ask_andy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>http:\/\/communities.mentor.com\/mgcx\/community\/pcb\/design_tasks\/pads\/ask_andy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Jim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As users of EDA tools, when you have questions, you probably go to one of two sources:\u00a0 customer support or&#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-68","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\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10266,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}