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In this 18-minute Siemens video presentation, PCB design expert and instructor Steph Chavez breaks down the importance of PCB design best practices that can enable engineering productivity and efficiency in the PCB design process.
These best practices include design automation, concurrent design, design reuse, constraint-driven design, component groups, sketch routing, and advanced designs, including rigid-flex and HDI. Steph also discusses the advantage design teams can gain by working in parallel instead of serially.
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