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Do you design RF boards (PCB) yourself - RF Cafe Forums
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dehati
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Post subject: Do you design RF boards (PCB) yourself
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:48 am
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Joined: Mon Jul 21, 2008
11:28 pm Posts: 9 Location: MA, USA
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Do you RF engineers d o routing yourself you does
a CAD enginner/technicians do it for you ?
I am a high speed digital designer and I have
to occassionally do RF designs. I do my Schematics
and Layout myself. Although I would have liked separate
person do it, but integrated approach makes the
decision easy. I do not have to tell anyone and
convince him 10 design changes. At the same
time learning new tools is a time taking process.
I uses PADS and allegro for designs. OrCAD for Schematics.
I had experience with hspice but now I do not have
the tool. What do you RF engineers do for
Layouts ....
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jaslovkel |
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:57 am
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Captain |
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Joined: Tue Jun 26, 2007
10:27 am Posts: 23 Location: Dallas, TX
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Hi dehati, Depending on what I'm doing,
I'll at least help out with layout if not do the
whole thing myself. Usually, I will use Cadence
for circuit schematic simulation and performing
the layout. Every now and then I'll get into ADS
for the same task, but this is on a rare occasion.
At most of the companies I have worked for
there are dedicated groups for performing layout.
I may be fortunate in my experiences though, because
the majority of the managers and even some of the
layout engineers were ex-designers and knew everything
fairly well and were willing to make changes as
they had the background. For PCB design,
I have only ever used Protel. I know exactly
what you mean when you say learning a lot of tools
is difficult. It has taken me many years to get
used to doing layout in Cadence, and then having
to learn how to do board layout on Protel is another
challenge in itself. -J
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IR |
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:18 am
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Site Admin |
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Joined: Mon Jun 27, 2005
2:02 pm Posts: 423 Location: Germany
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Hello dehati, That depends a lot on the
structure of the company and its size. In most of
the companies I have worked for there was someone
dedicted for doing the PCB layout, and my role was
to supervise over the layout for doing the right
placement and routing - this is especially true
for RF design but nowadays also true for high-speed
digital design. Only in one company I was doing
some RF layout myself. Most of the PCB layout
personnel I worked with had no design experience,
but an experience based on previous designs they
did; therefore, my inputs to them were critical
for a correct layout to be done. But a good
thing is that you get to learn to work with new
design tools, this may serve you well in the future
and is a valuable knowledge.
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