I\u2019ve been presenting at a bunch of seminars throughout the world over the past few months.\u00a0 One of the presentations has been about passing data from PCB design to manufacturing.\u00a0 I make the point that over 90% of the time, your fabricator will edit the Gerber files to improve their yield, and most of the time, you don\u2019t know what they change.\u00a0 The attendees have shared several of their own \u201chorror\u201d stories of this happening.\u00a0 In one case, a designer said he was touring one of their company\u2019s vendors, and he was looking over the shoulder of the technician preparing Gerber files the fabrication process.\u00a0 He said, \u201csure enough, he was editing the traces, spreading them out to add more clearance between them.\u00a0 I watched for a little while, and he spread another trace over \u2013 but it was a differential pair!\u201d<\/p>\n
Be aware that this may happen to your designs!\u00a0 One way to insure you have manufacturable designs, and help eliminate design changes between CAD and manufacturing, is to add design for manufacturing analysis to your design process.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy, and is proven to reduce overall design costs, and help get your end product to market quicker. Take a look at this video<\/span>\u00a0learn more about DFM analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been presenting at a bunch of seminars throughout the world over the past few months.\u00a0 One of the presentations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/10341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}