Managed Design Reuse

Managed Design Reuse

Xpedition EDM facilitates design reuse through enterprise-wide data management of reusable circuit blocks from both the library and design perspectives. Reusable circuit blocks provide teams with an efficient process to leverage a library of 'certified' circuitry during new product development.

WHITE PAPER

Best techniques for leveraging reusable circuit blocks

Reusable circuit blocks enable design teams to build new products quickly, but how do you manage a process that spans both library and design? How do you know which elements need to be managed? This paper describes techniques for leveraging certified circuits and providing continuous circuit improvement, best practices for using reusable circuit blocks, and how these blocks can be used to track critical information such as IP owner and ITAR classification.

Key library and design elements associated with reusable circuit blocks
Proper support for these critical elements is essential to a robust environment that ensures design teams have the ability to accelerate the product development process.

Collaboration
Access control
Versioning
Notifications
Where-used
Data mining

Best practices and benefits for using reusable circuit blocks
Design teams can maximize the time-to-market benefits of reusable circuit blocks by adhering to best practices such as:

Ensuring that all team members are properly trained in the reusable circuit blocks process from both the library and design perspective

Assigning meaningful categories and properties to the reusable blocks to ensure they can be located and properly utilized by potential consumers
Keeping in mind that a library of certified reusable circuit blocks requires continual investment to ensure high quality and reliability. For example, utilizing data from the field can continually improve the reliability of high-use circuit blocks
Trying to avoid the ‘not-invented-here’ syndrome. Recognize that everyone has their own design style; as such, resist the urge to recreate, change, or simply refuse to use the certified blocks lest the investment in the circuit block library quickly be lost.

TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

Managed block reuse is part of a PCB design process that supports concurrency, improves reliability and quality, and helps manage complex IC chipsets.

Managed block reuse

FACT SHEET

Managed block design provides engineers and designers with an efficient method todevelop and publish blocks of know good circuitry from schematic and layout tools for reuse in new products

Managed block design

KEY FEATURES

Design Reuse with Proven Logical and Physical Elements

Design teams can quickly build new products by publishing reusable logical and physical IP directly and then sharing this IP with others.

Design Reuse Accelerates New Product Development

Reuse existing IP in the form of components and certified circuits for new products. Reusing proven elements from previous designs through a library of certified circuits allows new product development teams to leverage past successes for the benefit of their latest generation of products.