Digi-Key og Mentor i opsigtsvækkende samarbejde om PCB-designværktøjer

Mentor Graphics vil gennem Digi-Key tilbyde firmaets nye 'Designer Schematic' PCB-designværktøj, der understøtter alle faser fra koncept-til-prototype. Prisen for det slagkraftige værktøj bliver under 300 dollars (in english).

Available from Digi-Key, the Designer Schematic product from Mentor Graphics addresses escalating demand from professional engineers for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software at an affordable price point for new R&D projects, while facilitating access to the latest parts.

- Innovators around the world need to have access to professional-class PCB design tools to easily capture their design concepts. Mentor Graphics’ partnership with Digi-Key provides an opportunity to deliver our proven design technologies to individual engineers at very attractive price points, says Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division.

- We are pleased to be working with Digi-Key, their suppliers, and interested design service and PCB manufacturing suppliers to accelerate designs from concept to prototype. With Designer Schematic, Mentor Graphics is extending its range of PCB development solutions, now serving individual engineers working on conceptual projects, the desktop market with PADS, and the extended enterprise with our flagship Xpedition flow. 

- The Designer Schematic tool is scheduled to launch early this summer, at an unprecedented sub-$300 price point. Engineers will gain the benefit of first-class design tools, as well as increased freedom to use new components with error-free EDA representation, as they are released, providing direct paths to quick-turn PCB layout and manufacturing services. The web-based software is designed to give engineers real-time access to the latest design components along with easy, error-free access to Design Service Providers and PCB fabrication and manufacturing services.

- Mentor Graphics software represents the pinnacle of design tools. We’re pleased to be able to offer our customers a high-value CAD software solution that will take them to the next level of product design and prototyping without breaking the bank, says Randall Restle, Director of Application Engineering for Digi-Key.

- As a result, innovators will be able to focus on design creation, maintain their flexibility, and minimize the prototype development process.