{"id":7287,"date":"2020-01-14T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:34:25","slug":"10-things-you-must-consider-in-your-pcb-design-tool-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2020\/01\/14\/10-things-you-must-consider-in-your-pcb-design-tool-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Must Consider in Your PCB Design Tool Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.mentor.com\/5_lNG?CMPID=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7292 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/01\/10-R.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a>The most recent Aberdeen Study revealed that the top pressures to improve PCB design included;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Market demand for lower cost products<\/li>\n<li>Increased pressure to meet delivery deadlines<\/li>\n<li>Reduced development budgets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>(Source: <em>Today&#8217;s PCB Excellence: On Time, On Budget and Strategically On-Point:\u00a0 Aberdeen, Nov. 2019<\/em>)<\/h6>\n<p>Not surprisingly, now more than ever &#8211; reducing product design cycles, avoiding costly design re-spins, and getting products to market faster are driving product design tool selection.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an independent PCB designer or part of a small engineering team looking for a competitive advantage, I encourage you to <a href=\"https:\/\/go.mentor.com\/5_lNG?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>download<\/strong><\/a> this <a href=\"https:\/\/go.mentor.com\/5_lNG?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FREE<\/strong> <strong>10 Reasons <\/strong><strong>infographic <\/strong><\/a>to discover how you can meet todays PCB design pressures with PADS Professional\u2019s advanced PCB design capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading !\u00a0 John<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent Aberdeen Study revealed that the top pressures to improve PCB design included; Market demand for lower cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32176,"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-7287","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\/7287","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\/32176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}