Rethinking Reuse

ABSTRACT

The promises of board-level design reuse have gone largely unfulfilled. While often cited as the optimal way to address shorter design cycles, implementing an effective design reuse strategy has eluded many design teams. However, there are many aspects to design reuse that can be put into practice to reap significant gains in design time and quality. This article describes several approaches to design reuse, from creating simple variants to reusing entire physical implementations.