Posted Jan 18, 2011, by John Isaac
The Aberdeen Group conducted a survey of 536 electronics company management types to determine what business results (time-to-market, product cost and competitiveness, quality, … ) qualified them as “Best-in-Class” status. They then matched those BiC companies with common PCB design best practices that they had identified to help bring them to that status.
Highlighted as the 3 top … Read More
Tags:
design concurrency,
Collaboration,
Signal Integrity,
Thermal Analysis,
Expedition
Posted Mar 9, 2010, by John Isaac
In the automotive industry we have always talked about the cost of reliability in terms of the warantee expense that they incur when they have a problem. You can justify a lot of tool and designer expense based on the cost of one failure that requires a warantee fix. Turns out warantee costs are a drop in the bucket compared to the cost in sales and credibility being experienced by Toyota.
At Mentor … Read More
Tags:
HALT,
HyperLynx,
Expedition Enterrpise,
Reliability,
Thermal Analysis,
Mechanical Analysis
Posted Mar 2, 2010, by Steve McKinney
Over the last few days, I’ve been in some interesting discussions, the crux of which revolved around “why would anybody care about doing analysis?”.
It’s an interesting question. Why does Company A mandate doing analysis for things like signal quality, power design, EMI verification, etc on every design while Company B forgoes analysis completely? Company B is still getting designs out, they’re … Read More
Tags:
Time-to-Market,
Thermal Analysis,
HyperLynx,
Signal Integrity,
Power Integrity,
Reliabililty
Posted May 21, 2009, by John Isaac
Since I got into the PCB design tool writing business back in 1967 (hard to believe I’m still alive) with IBM, there has been a focus on creating better schematic, place, route and manufacturing data generation capabilities. And we as EDA vendors still have to continue to improve what we supply to our users for the design of the PCB: Keep up with the latest PCB fabrication technologies. Handle increasing … Read More
Tags:
Thermal Analysis,
Electromechanical,
EMS,
ECAD_MCAD,
Power_Integrity,
Signal_Integrity,
Expedition_Enterprise,
PCB_Design
