Designer Schematic™ from Mentor Graphics, now available from Digi-Key, meets the growing demand from professional engineers for an affordable electronic design automation (EDA) software for new research and development projects by providing access to the latest parts.
“The world’s innovators need access to professional-grade PCB design tools to easily capture design concepts. Mentor Graphics’ partnership with Digi-Key provides an opportunity to offer proven design technologies to individual engineers at a very attractive price,” said Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of the Design Division at Mentor Graphics Systems. “We are excited to work with Digi-Key, its suppliers, and interested PCB manufacturing and design service providers to accelerate designs from concept to prototype. With Designer Schematic, Mentor Graphics expands its range of PCB development solutions, now serving individual engineers working on conceptual projects, the desktop market with PADS®, and the extended business with the flagship Xpedition™ workflow.”.
The Design Schematic tool will launch early this summer at an unprecedented price of under $300. Engineers will benefit from top-tier design tools and greater freedom to use new components with error-free EDA representation as they are generated, providing direct pathways to rapidly transform PCB design and manufacturing services. The web-based software is designed to give engineers real-time access to the latest design components with easy and error-free access to PCB design and manufacturing service providers.
"Mentor Graphics' software represents the pinnacle of design tools. We are pleased to offer our customers a high-value CAD software solution that will allow them to take their product design and prototyping to the next level without incurring exorbitant costs," said Randall Restle, director of application engineering at Digi-Key. "As a result, innovators can focus on creating designs, maintain flexibility, and minimize the prototyping process.".
