In a message dated 6/9/2004 5:44:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: 1) What is your Job title? Principle PCB Designer 2) Are you involved in PCB Design or some other activity - (please indicate) PCB Design and Validation 3) What type of boards do you create? RF, Digital, Test 4) How large is a typical design team at your company? 100 nets to 1000 nets 5) What is the duration of your typical design time? 2-3 weeks 6) What percentage of the time spent is on Schematic Development? 25%-30% 7) What percentage of the time spent is on PCB Design or Layout 50%-60% 8) What percentage of the time spent is on Manufacturing support 10% 9) What percentage of the time spent is on Signal Integrity analysis 0000000 10) What percentage of the time spent is on Thermal/EMI 0% (best be done prior to design) 11) How many boards are typically in your projects? 5-10 12) How many FPGA's or ASIC's are used in your projects? 0-3 13) What is the average layer count of your PCB designs 4-6 14) What is the typical clock speed or frequency your designs operate at? RF <2GHz, Digital up to 300MHz 15) Do you consider your designs to be 'high speed'? Some 16) Will you be doing much more, more, the same, less, or much less designs next year? Ain't got time to do more so I guess the same 17) What CAD tool(s) do you use? PCAD/MENTOR expedition 18) Do you plan on spending more, same or less on CAD tools next year? More (looking at/for new tools) 19) Are Signal Integrity tools important to the success of your board designs? NO! 20) Are you very satisfied, satisfied, or not satisfied with your design tools? not very satisfied 21) What does your CAD tool do Right? Or Wrong? What do you like about it and not like about it. Too much to answer --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To set a vacation stop for delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------