Team Collaboration in PCB Design

What is the role of Team Collaboration in Schematic Design? Engineering design changes can cause delays and introduce errors. Design collaboration eliminates the barriers of restricting changes within a schematic/layout flow. Whether a single schematic designer or multiple schematic designers collaborating, support of concurrent constraint and logic changes while the layout is in progress is fundamental, synchronizing the schematic and layout with powerful integration features.

Changes made to the schematic and/or layout must be easily updated into a common database without interrupting the design cycle. PCB designers should also have access to an embedded schematic view within the layout tool.

A method of Team Collaboration in PCB Design is Concurrent Team Design. A Concurrent Team Design environment allows multiple designers to work simultaneously within a single PCB layout design database. For PCB designs that have aggressive schedules, concurrent layout enables collaboration across geographically dispersed or functionally organized PCB design groups to maximize productivity and dramatically shorten design time to market. It must be designed for immediate deployment and is as fully functional as its single-user counterpart.

Time-consuming training is not needed, or changes to a company’s infrastructure or library to implement, because the Team technology is based on the current design environment.