62 The PCB Design Magazine • November 2016
1
Mentor Graphics' PADS
Platform Bridges Design
and Manufacturing
At PCB West, Publisher Barry
Matties spoke with Paul Musto,
marketing director for Men-
tor Graphics' Systems Division,
about Mentor's PADS Product
Creation Platform and their intro-
duction of scalable software tools
to help design better boards, from the enterprise
level down to the entry level and hobbyists.
2
Advanced Circuits Upgrades
its Free PCB Design Software,
PCB Artist 3.2
Advanced Circuits has re-
leased version 3.2 of its free
professional-grade PCB de-
sign software, PCB Artist, the
most active PCB software on
Downloads.com with over
265,000 downloads. Since its
first release in June of 2007,
Advanced Circuits' PCB Art-
ist has become well known in
the printed circuit board industry as the best free
PCB design software.
3
SnapEDA: Inspiring Millennials
in the PCB Design Community
Natasha Baker, founder of
SnapEDA, is part of the new
breed of entrepreneurs. She
manages a group of mil-
lennials who are not much
younger than she is, and the
company aims to change
the way PCB designers use
PCB footprints and schematic symbols.
4
Freedom CAD: Navigating
the Unpredictable Design
Marketplace
As COO of the design
service bureau Freedom
CAD, Scott Miller has a
front-row seat to the chal-
lenges currently plaguing
designers and the design
community as a whole.
He shared his view of the
industry with me recently,
offering insights on the importance of picking the
right partners and customer relationships in an
unforgiving and sometimes unpredictable design
marketplace.
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