For a guaranteed high-quality design, it is essential to follow certain steps:

• Feasibility study to identify and rectify any potential problem areas
• Data preparation - prepare library, import components and net-list
• Define any component placement and route length constraints
• Obtain optimal PCB layer build for required route impedances
• Place components and run a placement check
• Review placement with customer
• Hand route any length-constrained or critical nets
• Hand route or stub power, auto-route and tidy the remaining nets
• Check whole PCB for potential design and manufacturing errors
• Review design with customer and obtain approval
• Post-process to produce Gerber manufacturing files
• IPC-356 net-list check and Gerber manufacturing error check
• Provide assembly, solder paste stencil and x-y pick-and-place files
• Provide CADIF test data files and customer-specific drawings or files
• Provide master design files to customer and file backup

With regular in-house design reviews and consultation with customers, Cadlay Designs provide the very highest quality of schematic and PCB to our customers' requirements on time, every time.