{"id":949,"date":"2018-04-03T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/xpedition\/?p=949"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:46:56","slug":"whats-new-in-xpedition-schematic-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2018\/04\/03\/whats-new-in-xpedition-schematic-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in Xpedition \u2013 Schematic Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-951\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2018\/03\/Blog-Whats-New-Xpedition-VX.2.3-Schematic-Capture-520x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"172\" \/>In the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/blog\/post\/what-s-new-in-xpedition-system-design-8751bfd8-73ea-4f18-83bb-35bc9ddfff00?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What\u2019s New in Xpedition<\/a> blog post we reviewed the new multi-board <strong>system design<\/strong> features that are available in the Xpedition VX.2 series of releases. We looked at the innovative functionality for Interface Control Document (ICD) based integration between the multi-board system design and the system of systems project, along with the new capability that provides for easy access to library-based reusable circuit blocks, and the new integration with HyperLynx for multi-board simulation. In this blog, we&#8217;ll look under the hood and check out what\u2019s new in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/xpedition\/design-create?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Schematic Capture<\/strong><\/a>. Xpedition schematic capture functionality enables product development teams to define, verify and communicate design intent throughout the PCB design flow. It provides a complete solution for design creation and reuse, along with everything needed for simulation, component selection, and library management, all in a concurrent team-based design environment.<\/p>\n<p>With the VX.2 series of releases, Xpedition schematic capture delivers a new symbol editor with the same look and feel as the schematic editor. Specifically, the new symbol editor and the schematic editor have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The same editor engine<\/li>\n<li>The same settings, fonts, grids and color schemes<\/li>\n<li>Identical graphical rendering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The VX.2 series also delivers innovative schematic capture functionality that provides for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new, smart, google-like search for parts, symbols, and properties<\/li>\n<li>An updated project integration user interface, with a new advisor for design changes that&#8217;s focused in four (4) areas: inter-tool communication, symbol data, documentation and schematics<\/li>\n<li>Display control functionality similar to the layout display control, including favorites, hide unused items, search, and schemes<\/li>\n<li>Simplified toolbars that focus on the most common design tasks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like a preview of what\u2019s new please feel free to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/resources\/overview\/what-s-new-in-xpedition-4c023edf-c6ad-47e8-a25f-559d99ed6ef9?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What&#8217;s New in Xpedition<\/a> video, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/xpedition\/new-in-xpedition\/vx-2-3?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online demos<\/a> of the highlights for each of the VX.2 releases. You can also take a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/resources\/overview\/tour-xpedition-enterprise-in-seven-minutes-e0b74423-6d17-4c54-b498-ea7b378cdc5c?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tour of Xpedition Enterprise<\/a> to get a great overview of all the functionality that Xpedition has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check back for the next entry in this series \u2013 What\u2019s New in Xpedition \u2013 FPGA-PCB Co-Design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last What\u2019s New in Xpedition blog post we reviewed the new multi-board system design features that are available&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}