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Sign up for Mentor’s Oct. 22 Library and Component Management Webinar
October 21, 2015 | Mentor GraphicsEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
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%
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If so, please attend the Library and Component Management Webinar at 10 am Eastern on October 22, 2015.
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