Sign up for Mentor’s Oct. 22 Library and Component Management Webinar

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The PCB is central to systems development, and the quality of your component libraries can have a dramatic impact on product performance, cost and quality. In a survey of the design community, when asked what were the key technologies required to improve their PCB Data Management, the two top items were:

• Centralized Library Management: 91%
• Component Management: 83%

Are you experiencing any of the following challenges?

• Engineers can’t find information on current parts
• No history tracking: who made what change, when, and why
• No process to prevent engineers from using parts that are undesirable or obsolete
• No process to ensure consistency and accuracy of part data
• Inaccurate component data causing BOM issues in manufacturing
• New parts are holding up the design process

If so, please attend the Library and Component Management Webinar at 10 am Eastern on October 22, 2015.

What you Will Learn:

• Component library structure for the Netlist and Integrated Flows
• Suggestions for configuring component libraries efficiently
• How to get started with a new component library
• How xDX DataBook can help you manage component parametric data
• Using tools for updating and maintaining current component data

Click here for more information, or to register.

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