Siemens EDA Launches New Home Website

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Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor, A Siemens Business and now part of Siemens Digital Industries Software) is proud to announce our new home website, located at https://eda.sw.siemens.com.

The new site is organized by electrical engineering functional discipline plus EDA consulting services:

• IC Design, Verification & Manufacturing
• IC Packaging Design & Manufacturing
• Electronic System Design & Manufacturing
• EDA Services

In each of these sections you will find in-depth information on Siemens EDA’s extensive technology portfolio in addition to a wealth of content to help you sharpen your skill set, speed up your design flow and meet your design goals.

We encourage you to bookmark the new website and sign in or sign up to take full advantage of the new site’s wealth of resources.

Siemens EDA: Where EDA Innovation meets tomorrow.

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06/17/2021 | Dana Korf, Korf Consultancy

The original Star Trek series came into my life in 1966 as I was entering sixth grade. I was fascinated by the technology being used, such as communicators and phasers, and the crazy assortment of humans and aliens in each episode. My favorite episode is “The Trouble with Tribbles,” an episode combining cute Tribbles, science, and good/bad guys—sprinkled with sarcastic humor.

04/30/2021 | Ed Acheson, Cadence Design Systems

With the current design transfer formats, rigid-flex designers face a hand-off conundrum. You know the situation: My rigid-flex design is done so now it is time to get this built and into the product. Reviewing the documentation reveals that there are tables to define the different stackup definitions used in the design. The cross-references for the different zones to areas of the design are all there, I think. The last time a zone definition was missed, we caused a costly mistake.

04/29/2021 | Bill Hargin, Z-zero

When Bill Hargin was cutting his teeth in high-speed PCB design some 25 years ago, speeds were slow, layer counts were low, dielectric constants and loss tangents were high, design margins were wide, copper roughness didn’t matter, and glass-weave styles didn’t matter. Dielectrics were called “FR-4” and their properties didn’t matter much. A fast PCI bus operated at just 66 MHz. Times have certainly changed.