Printed Circuit Board Routing at the threshold

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Mentor technical paper.
Printed circuit board routing was once considered a quiet backwater of the design world. The cutting edge had moved far away from a technology where all the big problems had been solved.The few analysts who wrote about board design and its associated software tool development used words like mundane and static to describe what was essentially a technological steady state.Industry experts advised aspiring PCB designers to look elsewhere for true technical challenges.Then everything changed, turning conventional wisdom on its head. Gradually at first and then with gathering momentum, the field of PCB design underwent a major transformation. Rapid advances in IC-related technologies suddenly demanded that PCB designers reinvent their craft.
Today, we are seeing what Dataquest calls “a resurgence of CAD [which has] become a noticeable influence on EDA.” In a recent study, Dataquest noted that although printed circuit board placeand-route tools surged in importance during the past year, users were not satisfied with their performance. Clearly, EDA vendors must respond with a new generation of advanced tools for the heart of printed circuit design — at the heart of which is the PCB router.

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