{"id":80,"date":"2009-09-03T07:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=80"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:16:52","slug":"right-tool-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2009\/09\/03\/right-tool-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Tool for the Job!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Do you have kids?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Have they (or in my case, their friends) walk right through your screen door?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>So started one of my projects this past weekend \u2013 replacing the screen.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>For those of you that have replaced screens before, you know that to do it you need that special tool \u2013 the spline-installation tool (and yes \u2013 I had to do some googling to find the name if it!).<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Without it, replacing torn screens would be close to impossible.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It would definitely have taken many times longer to get the job done without it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>This is not much different than working with design tools.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>To get the job done right, in a timely fashion, you need the right tool.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Sure you can do some analysis the old fashion way \u2013 with lots of math and formulas (and lot\u2019s of hours!).<span>\u00a0 <\/span>And yes \u2013 you can route those differential pairs, with length constraints, manually \u2013 if you have the time.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Or, you can get the right tool.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>True analysis tools dedicated to the problem you are trying to solve.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>And a tool that can route differential pairs \u2013 to the rules you assign \u2013 automatically and easily!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>To see if you have the right tool for you design needs, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pads.com\/resources\/overview\/start-smarter-with-pads-pcb-design-cd2be1df-99ae-4662-8605-86eb84c57899?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PADS Overview Video<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Jim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have kids?\u00a0 Have they (or in my case, their friends) walk right through your screen door?\u00a0 So started&#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-80","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\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}