{"id":811,"date":"2012-10-26T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=811"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:33","slug":"is-time-to-bring-the-power-to-you-front-end-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2012\/10\/26\/is-time-to-bring-the-power-to-you-front-end-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Time to &#8220;Bring the Power&#8221; to your Front-End Design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve visited with many customers over the past couple of months at seminars, user group meetings and other venues.\u00a0 One thing that is consistent with everyone I spoke to &#8211; they\u00a0are way too busy, and their companies are understaffed.\u00a0 They admit that they need to find ways to work more productively, but don&#8217;t have the time to look, much less implement new tools and processes.<\/p>\n<p>A great place to improve design efficiencies is in the front-end; the schematic capture environment.\u00a0 Functionality like a component information system, integration to simulation, variant management, tight integration with layout, including the ability to add your design rules on the schematic, all will improve your productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Mentor is making it easy for you to look at improving your front-end with a\u00a0<a title=\"DxDesigner Webinar Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/multimedia\/unleash-the-full-power-of-your-pcb-design-software-tools?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webinar<\/a>\u00a0on DxDesigner.\u00a0 The first is titled &#8220;Unleash the Full Power of Your PCB Design Software Tools&#8221; on October 30.<\/p>\n<p>-Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve visited with many customers over the past couple of months at seminars, user group meetings and other venues.\u00a0 One&#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-811","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\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/10347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}