Siemens EDA: Net Shorting with Starpoints and Tiebars

What’s covered

Intentional net shorting with Starpoints and Tiebars is a free Siemens EDA webinar on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 9:30 PM IST, presented by Will Crawford and Jeff Kuester, covering legacy, Starpoint, and Tiebar methods for shorting nets in Xpedition PCB layout. Registration is free.

Intentional net shorting with Starpoints and Tiebars looks at how PCB designers connect separate nets at a specific physical location in the layout. The session covers the different ways to do this in Xpedition Standard, from legacy shorting methods through to the newer Starpoints and Tiebars approaches.

The webinar walks through when to use each method and the key symbol, cell, and layout requirements each approach needs, then closes with a demo showing how the methods are applied and verified.

What you will learn:

• The different options for intentionally shorting nets in Xpedition: legacy methods, Starpoints, and Tiebars
• When to use each method
• The key symbol, cell, and layout requirements for each approach
• A demo of how these methods are applied and verified

Who should attend

• PCB designers
• Electrical Engineers
• Librarians

What is intentional net shorting?

Intentional net shorting is the deliberate connection of two or more separate electrical nets at a specific physical location in a PCB layout, most commonly for star-point grounding or controlled tie-bar connections. In Xpedition Standard, designers can implement this with legacy shorting methods or with the newer Starpoints and Tiebars approaches, each with its own symbol, cell, and layout requirements. Choosing the right method and verifying it correctly is what the session’s demo walks through.

Speakers

Session time

Region	Time
India	Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 9:30 PM IST
US Pacific	9:00 AM PDT

Registration and attendance is completely free. Time sourced from the official ON24 registration page.

Why GSAS is sharing this

GSAS is the authorized Siemens EDA engineering partner in India (formerly Mentor Graphics), covering the Xpedition, HyperLynx, and PADS Pro portfolio. Indian PCB design and layout teams get this net-shorting workflow guidance directly from Siemens EDA’s own support application engineers, the people who build and support these methods inside Xpedition.

If your team is standardizing how it handles star-point grounding or tiebar shorting across a design library, or has questions about how Starpoints and Tiebars fit your Xpedition layout process, talk to us.

This session is part of Siemens EDA’s EBS Expert Series; see the full EBS Expert Series lineup for all six free webinars running through August 2026.

Register free on ON24 →