{"id":98,"date":"2009-10-06T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=98"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:16:56","slug":"with-a-little-help-from-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2009\/10\/06\/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"With A Little Help From My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been listening to your radio the past month, you\u2019ve probably noticed the Beatles \u201coverload\u201d thanks to their digitally re-mastered release of all their recordings. I\u2019m not complaining \u2013 I\u2019m a big fan. They have lots of messages in their songs. I even recall how I got my first (and few!) A\u2019s in college by doing a paper on \u201cThe Fool on the Hill,\u201d dissecting the message\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The message in \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends\u201d is more obvious \u2013 we all need help from our friends. In our workplace, we rely on it \u2013 I know I can\u2019t get my job done without the help of my co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>We at Mentor are making it easier for you to get \u201chelp from your friends\u201d with our Community website. This is a social\/professional online forum for design professionals to go and get this help: ask questions, research design issues, etc. These questions can be general design related, or tool specific, and there are plenty of individual communities and threads to find what you are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.mentor.com\/mgcx\/index.jspa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mentor Graphics Community<\/a> \u2013 you have more \u201cfriends\u201d here than you may realize!<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been listening to your radio the past month, you\u2019ve probably noticed the Beatles \u201coverload\u201d thanks to their&#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-98","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\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}