Product development requires a coordinated effort by many members of multiple disciplined design teams. We tend to focus on the design of the PCB, which is an extremely important element of the product, but it takes more than just the PCB to put a product into the marketplace (FIGURE 1). Many products require custom IC design or multiple FPGAs, software must be written and tested on the hardware and a mechanical enclosure, backplane and display must be designed; everything has to fit together with the PCB. Manufacturing the entire product must involve all members in the design process to ensure that the product can quickly reach production volumes and hit the target market window.
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