Posted Apr 22, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Developing global platform cars is not easy. The workload of engineers designing electrical interconnect and delivering a manufacturing BOM for suppliers is considerable. The reality of electrical and electronic feature proliferation in a vehicle platform is somewhere between harsh and vicious for electrical design and wiring engineers.
Not that I’ve personally tried to knock together a car … Read More
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Electrical Design Systems,
Electrical Design,
Electrical Distribution Systems,
automotive wiring harness,
Capital,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
CHS,
Wire Harness,
circuit design software,
Capital Harness,
Wiring Harness,
Capital Harness Systems
Posted Mar 22, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Aren’t we just all happy people to be living in the information golden age? Maybe it just seems good now, and in a couple of centuries this will be seen as the iron age of information technology, one step on from the hunter-gatherers’ life of gleaning scraps of wisdom from the library shelves.
At our disposal is a mighty array of data sources, and still, it sometimes is very significant … Read More
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IESF,
Detroit,
Mentor Communities,
automotive wiring harness,
Capital,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
CHS,
Customer Support,
Capital Harness Systems,
Capital Library
Posted Feb 7, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Out and about on the last day of January I saw a house which still sported the snowflake outdoor lights and the colored lights on the fir tree. That’s a little late, the second month just starting. And the year seems to be moving quickly to me. Capital 2010.2 released and already installed on a few computers I can mention and people are exploring the Capital Modular XC harness design capabilities … Read More
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electrical wiring systems,
Electrical Distribution Systems,
IESF,
autosar tools,
Capital Harness Systems,
automotive wiring harness,
circuit design software,
user conferences,
vehicle wiring products,
Detroit,
car electrical system,
wire harness cad,
CHS,
wire harness design
Posted Jan 14, 2011, by Paul Johnston
The last entry ended by looking at typical motivations for writing custom code in-house instead of using a commercial package. It is characteristic of these motivations that they are responses to the deficiencies of the commercial offering. Or a tendency to develop in-house code is born from assuming commercial tools do not exist or could not cover all the particular needs you have. Due diligence before … Read More
Tags:
Outsourced Integrated Electrical Systems Software,
Capital Harness Systems,
CHS,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Integrated Electrical Systems,
Interoperability,
COTS,
home-grown software
Posted Nov 22, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Let’s look briefly at cause and effect. In previous notes on this subject, I remarked choices between in-sourced or outsourced information technology solutions in an electrical design processes yield consequences . What’s in it for you? Knowing more about these issues will inform your choices.
A common way of referring to a tangle of human-factor issues is to say decisions are “political.”
Radical … Read More
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Electrical Interconnect Design,
Electrical Distribution Systems,
Extensibility,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Capital Harness Systems,
API,
IESD,
Deployment,
Design Rules,
Wiring Harness,
CHS,
COTS
Posted Aug 12, 2010, by Michael Stamper
Having been a technical specialist with Mentor Graphics for a little over 7 years now. I work with a great group of people and we have had some great successes. I was recently asked after our latest account win what made the customer choose Mentor Graphics?
This is a question I was unable to answer straight away. On the surface we have products to sell that they want to buy, but that is really too … Read More
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ECAD,
Electrical Design,
Capital Harness Systems,
Mentor Graphics,
Wire Harness
Posted May 4, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Sure they look a bit uncomfortable in formal wear at the Holiday party, and have this staccato way of talking and use words only they understand which might be about business information technology and cool scientific hardware. Or sometimes you think they are talking about an on-line game that they all play and nobody knows it because they control everything from the firewall-pixel-montage to the spam-thrust-warble … Read More
Tags:
CHS,
Capital Harness Systems
Posted Mar 8, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Ten days left to the event at the Dearborn Grand Hyatt. The number of registrations is running close to the high water mark which was reached the last event. Join the people flocking to participate in this free conference by visiting http://www.mentor.com/events/transconf/detroit/
This time around attendees are spared a presentation or a paper delivered by myself. Therefore my personal preparations … Read More
Tags:
Cabling,
Capital Harness Systems,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
CHS,
IESF
Posted Feb 15, 2010, by Paul Johnston
A little while ago I blogged the praises of the librarian and their role in underpinning the success of EDA design, and specifically their unsung role in electrical interconnect and harness design. This time around I extol the professionalism and virtues of Product Managers - employees of Mentor Graphics whose contribution is not acknowledged enough to the success of the Capital application, the popularity … Read More
Tags:
Best Practice,
Capital Harness Systems,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Electrical Engineering,
Product Manager,
CHS,
Electrical Distribution Systems
Posted Jan 27, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Mentor Graphics’ website has just been reorganized and improved so you can better find information relating to the Integrated Electrical Systems products. Capital and VeSys reviews, descriptions and information can now be accessed through www.mentor.com/electrical. The re-structuring is comprehensive and the appearance and friendliness of the site is improved. What was there previously wasn’t all that … Read More
Tags:
Capital Architect,
Capital Costing,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
VeSys,
Wire Harness,
Capital Harness Systems,
CHS
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