The last decade has seen extraordinary advances in printed circuit board design and fabrication.
There have been substantial improvements in the efficiency of every PCB design task—in schematic entry and simulation, in layout and routing and team collaboration, and even in the way that manufacturing data is transferred to the fabricator. But there is one place where advancement has seemingly stalled: the design and connectivity of the overarching system-level hardware architecture.
This white paper explores the complexity of managing system-level PCB design, and identifies methods for introducing the same level of integration and automation that has advanced other areas of PCB design over the last decade.