Dear Peter,
As a person who does RF , high speed digital and analog design and
supervises CAD layout work, I agree with you 100% . It's good when the CAD
people know more than just what to click to use their CAD tools and actually
understand the design.
I've seen so many horrendous layout jobs that I came to the conclusion that
each layout which passes the CAD person's verification and DRC checks must
undergo a final check done by a qualified engineer (this is part of our
design verification procedure in our company) . We are very fortunate to
have found a few good engineers who enjoy both the design and layout aspects
of their work.
Before that, a normal scenario was for example for the cad operator to route
a couple of analog 1GHz PLL signals together with some high speed logic
signals , minimize the logic signals trace length , and leave the PLL traces
the longest , routed on several layers and having a number of vias on each
1GHz signal ! Needless to say , things never worked from the first pass and
it was always the usual ballet of revisions and ECO's , weeks/months of
delays and thousands of $$$ wasted .
Best Regards,
Matt Tudor , MSEE
Elmar Technologies
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~mariusrf consulting
http://www.rfdatacorp.com spread spectrum radio telemetry
-----Original Message-----
From: Elektronik-Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Protel EDA Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Reference
>Dear Matt,
>
>Principally you are right. The primary layouter's job is not to think about
the
>schematic design,
> --- b u t ---
>electronic engineers "sometimes" are normal human persons and forget the
>"easiest" things. :-)
>So i intend the layout designer always to ask the developer, if he finds
>something unusual.
>Therefore it is necessary to know the basics in the analog and digital
design.
>I think, if the layout designer doesn't know this, the product will not be
able
>to approve the EMI tests of an industrial
>environment.
>
>Peter Schoepe
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