PCB Design - How Many Monitors?

Hi Charles, as you probably know all of our company who are working with the EE flow are using a dual display setup. DxDesigner and all its additional windows force you to have a dual display. Otherwise you will get a tiny window for schematic entry. CES is an addition, so usually you edit here and crosshighlight to DXD or Expedition. Expedition PCB and its new Editor Control and Output Message AddIn give you the ability to have a full size Layout and the other outputs on a secon screen. regards, Andreas

As a PCB designer I work with two monitors. One 20"" monitor for the layout and one 17" monitor for the schematic and all the configuration windows of Expedition. I really do not want to return to the "one monitor" time. Regards, Charles

I work with 3 monitors. I have the layout up in the center, the schematic on the right and a reference design, valor job, or CES on the left. Dialog boxes are floating in there somewhere, too. I'm spoiled, I know!

Just about every company I go to uses dual monitors. One company did not but they had a 36" LCD screen for each user, which actually was better in my opinion.

Funny, I was just saying to a friend of mine about HDTVs, "A 50 inch screen looked pretty big until I saw and 80 inch screen." Ah technology. Maybe someday we will have multiple 40" monitors with cursor movement that follows your eyes. In 1997 I did some research for a friend who had ALS. He couldn't move his arms or hands so we set him up with a laser device that read his eye movement. He was really good at moving the cursor around and then blinking for a mouse click. I am sure the technology has matured quite a bit since then.

Hey Charlie, Long time, no type... How's the golf game... I work with 2 monitors on the desktop, but only one when using my laptop... I have a problem getting the screen back to the way it was when I attempt to setup for a 2nd screen on my laptop. Drop a line.

Hi Charles I have always used just 1 moniter. this is probably because I have always used Board Station and the schematic can be pulled up on half the screen while the layout is on the other half - true cross probing? From what I have seen of Expedition this is not the case, but I may be wrong. Going to find out in the coming months as we are due to migrate at some point!