Electronic systems & PCB Design and Manufacturing solutions

PCB design is approaching a new era of digital transformation. Digital technologies bring together all the aspects of product design, including mechanical and electrical, and streamline the entire PCB design process – from product inception through manufacturing To bring about digital transformation within PCB design, companies need to consider five key pillars.

1. Digitally integrated and optimized

Establishing a digitally integrated solution across multiple domains reduces manual intervention, fosters collaboration, and improves transparency across disciplines.With a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment, all engineering teams, including IC, IC packaging, FPGA, and PCB design within electronics, as well as mechanical and software, can optimize the costs associated with a project, accelerate design time, manage data integrity, and improve the quality of results. The best practices that can enable a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment include:

ECAD/MCAD collaboration
Design/Manufacturing
Library and data management

2. Engineering productivity and efficiency

In general, the PCB design process is the same no matter the tool, the team, the company, or the culture. The differentiator is the manner of execution, where engineering productivity & efficiency play a significant role. This enables you to:

Predictably and reliably manage complex and high-capacity designs.
Utilize advanced interactive and automated design support to accelerate routine tasks.
Design correct-by-construction with a constraint-driven process
Implement concurrent team design-driven cycle-time reduction.

The best practices that can enable engineering productivity and efficiency include:

Design automation
Analog/digital/RF
Concurrent design
Design reuse
Constraint driven design
Advanced design

3. Digital-prototype driven verification

While product and design complexity increases, associated tools and process complexity are also rising. By integrating verification throughout PCB design – starting very early, long before physical prototypes – engineering teams can smooth the entire electronic systems design process and increase design quality through digital-prototype driven, shift-left verification and cross-domain modeling.
Shift-left verification in the design flow eliminates the specialist bottleneck by using automated, integrated tools. Cost and time are saved by finding problems early, during design, minimizing design iterations, and manufacturing respins.
The best practices that can enable digital-prototype-driven verification include a shift-left approach to:

Schematic analysis
Thermal analysis
SI/PIAMS
Manufacturability

4. Model-based systems engineering

From system requirements to implementation and manufacturing, a model-based systems engineering approach allows team members to view the entire system (electronic, electrical, mechanical, and software) and model pieces of that system, defining and optimizing interconnectivity and traceability from one domain to the other.
The best practices that can enable system-level model-based engineering include:

Multi-board
Electrical/electronic
FPGA/PCB optimization
IC/Package/PCB

5. Supply chain resilience

Electronic systems design companies have always depended on a value chain of suppliers and manufacturing services to bring successful products to market. Connecting the demand for a product with the supply of its necessary parts has never been more complex than it is today. The answer is to design for supply chain resilience.
The best practices that can enable supply chain resilience include:

BOM validation
Best-known part availability
Validation of alternates

6. Siemens EDA provides solutions including

– Xpedition Enterprise is the industry’s most innovative PCB design flow, providing integration from system design definition to manufacturing execution. Its unique technologies can reduce design cycles by 50 percent or more while significantly improving overall quality and resource efficiency

– PADS is affordable, powerful, intuitive PCB design software used by engineers and their teams. With PADS you can take your electronic design from prototype to production in an easy-to-use environment- from the designer desktop to a connected cloud environment, empowering the future of collaboration

– Hyperlynx: Integrated Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, 3D Electromagnetic Modeling & Electrical Rule Checking for high-speed digital designs

– Valor solutions optimize PCB design/manufacturing with a complete digital-twin flow. Valor DFM assures manufacturability, while the process tools suite helps you create complete manufacturing data. Manufacturing Solutions ensure an efficient shop floor and first-time-right electronics production

– PartQuest cloud applications transform how the electronic components used in electronic systems design are discovered, explored and consumed. A seamless digital thread connects PCB development teams with the electronic component ecosystem they rely on to successfully design products.

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