CircuiTree - August 2008 - (Page 24) Creating Connections Between Electronics Design and Manufacturing By Rob Evans CB design is just not what it used to be. Even though it has dramatically evolved over the last couple of decades, it has always tended to be a singular, focused task that a board designer can get stuck in while surfacing periodically for coffee and new design information. Perhaps the first challenge in tackling today’s advanced designs is losing that comfortable concept of an isolated process that that is not directly dependant on other parts of the product design process. On the contrary, the board design in today’s leading electronic products is now inextricably locked to the mechanical and soft embedded parts of the design, so all design disciplines need to work together in a collaborative way. The hard facts are that design information, and perhaps even your coffee, need to be shared in a cooperative product design environment. This is not a sudden change. The evidence has been progressively 24 August 2008 • circuitree.com P appearing in the way board designs and the components they hold have evolved. Along with the expected changes in scale that are so familiar in the electronics domain—boards becoming smaller and more complex, component pin counts increasing, signal clock speeds rising, and the number of board layers growing—a number of other changes have crept in that don’t necessarily follow the linear, “smaller-faster-denser” evolution sequence. These are differences in board design that are less directly coupled to semiconductor technology advances and more to how product design itself is evolving from the sum of several independent design silos to a single collective process. The clues to this change are the other shifts in board design such as complex PCB shapes, the introduction of flexible board substrates, the adoption of large-scale programmable devices, and in an increasing number of current designs, an actual decrease in component count (see Figure 1). http://circuitree.com
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