Design Input
- Project Manager Review with Customer (Detailed PCB Design Checklist)
- Create Design Manual for Project
- Complete Input Checklist and Design Checklist
- Schematic Capture: View Logic, OrCad, Mentor DA, Intercept MoZaiX
- PCB Design: Mentor BS/Exp, Specctra, Intercept Pantheon, PowerPCB or compatible Netlist
- Package (Comps Data) BOM VS IPL (100 % Engineering Check)
- Mechanical: Input from ProE (IDF) or AutoCad (DXF) Board Outline and Hardware
- Geoms Generation (100 % Spec Sheet from Engineering)
- Geoms Built: Engineering sign off
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Engineering Readiness Review
- 100 % Schematic Capture Complete and Checked/100 % Netlist (Provided by Customer)
- 100 % Geoms
- 100 % BOM VS IPL
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To Placement
- Place all Components including Mechanical Hardware
- Plots to Stress, Thermal, Manufacturing, Engineering
- Preliminary Design Review scheduled with Customer
- PDR 100 % Geoms including Mechanical Check (Engineering sign off)
- 100 % Preliminary Design Review sign off
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To Layout (Routing)
- Set up Net Rules, Apply High Speed Design Rules to Database
- Preroute Critical Routes / Areas
- Critical Route Review / Sign off (Customer Review) High Speed Rules
- Prepare Do file for Auto router based on High Speed Rules and Customer Input (Critical Nets)
- Design Rule Check (DRC) Check Plots to Engineering
- Fabrication Drawings, Creation based on Customer Requirements
- Post Process (Gerbers, Drill, Milling)
- Electrical Rules Check (ERC) Pantheon, CAM-350
- Manufacturing Rules Check (MRC) Artwork Verification Pantheon, CAM-350
- (Double Verification is the process of applying a set of rules to do a complete check of not only the Layout Database but also
the Artwork and drill data that will be used to manufacture the Printed Circuit Board.)
This is a must for systems without WYSIWYG
on-screen verification.
- Final Customer Approval and sign off
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Fabrication
- Fabrication Drawing Release for Board Fabrication
This should be included in the Artwork Configuration
- Assembly Drawing first cut to Engineering, Creation based on Customer Input
- 100 % Dataset Release to Customer, Electronic Transfer or CD provided by CADesign
- Master CD created, along with complete Project Work Sheet (Daily Status and Design Tracker files and forms)
