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| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Benta on July 12, 2022, 05:43:36 pm ---Idiotic spin. PCB design today is 5% of design effort and has very little to do with engineering. It's more in the Draftsman trade. --- End quote --- 90% perspiration, 5% inspiration and 5% terror :-DD. Actually you are way off the mark. Try designing transmission lines or antennas for 1.6GHz or 2.4GHz. Or creating a detection circuit using op-amp filters. Or mitigating ESD in a medical device. In those cases, it is mostly engineering design. Good schematic design and PCB layout is an art. I was recently contracted to review a schematic and layout recently and I found around 100 issues, including fatal design flaws. And they wondered why their board was not working. They then asked me to reconstruct the schematic from scratch because the old one was such a unreadable cluttered mess full of inconsistencies and errors. It is done and I will be laying out the board soon. Another aspect of good engineering design is component selection. Currently, this is extremely difficult in many cases due to the global chip shortage. As a result we have to often get creative with schematic design and PCB layout. It is not easy. By the way, well-designed processes, documentation and design standards are a segue into good PCB design. |
| jonpaul:
AI PCB: Compliance for EMI, safety? Create PCB footprints from part or drawing? EE design: The thread seems limited to PCB layout. A product desgin may use: Panel layout Analog and digital Circuit design Magnetics design EMI filters Transient protection RF design etc. Jon |
| Zucca:
This is bullshit. Creating a well done PCB is a human skill superior to any art, job and service. It is almost a religion to embrace. To me it is one of the pinnacle of human engineering. |
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