In today’s competitive electronics industry, getting to market ahead of the competition can mean the difference between a successful product and one that misses its market window. Design cycle time plays a big part in determining a product launch schedule and the PCB layout portion of this process often is called upon to make up for early design phase schedule slips. One designer and one computer at a time can be a limiting factor.

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Reducing Design Cycle Times
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Created 02/04/2008 - 20:44
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By John Isaac, Mentor Graphics [ Courtesy of Assipe [1]]
In today’s competitive electronics industry, getting to market ahead of the competition can
mean the difference between a successful product and one that misses its market window.
Design cycle time plays a big part in determining a product launch schedule and the PCB
layout portion of this process often is called upon to make up for early design phase schedule
slips. One designer and one computer at a time can be a limiting factor.
Traditionally, designers are pulled in f