Design Environment ROI: How Design Teams On a Budget Can Build a Best in Class Design Environment

摘要

Design workflow is the core to your design team's competitive advantage; it's the conduit by which you turn your team's expertise and ideas into manufacturable products. And yet, all engineering teams face the challenge of maximizing their productivity within limited financial resources. How can the less-capitalized teams develop a design workflow that competes with the highly-capitalized teams? Simple: open tools.In this session, we present business examples from both market research and from direct experience with customers and supply chain partners. From these examples, we quantify the impact of some of the key elements of a design flow based on currently available open tools:1. SDK availability2. User Interface throughput3. All free tools are the same (or are they?)4. Blurring steps in the design phase5. Moving DFM upstream for designersAnd also report on areas where open distribution tools may NOT be the right choice:1. High performance signal design2. High end design.