The clock is ticking, and your managers are pushing hard for new PCB Board Design copying documents.
No problem, you can do it! You just send some instructions about the pcb board layout design to the design engineer, and then do other things! “Hi, Mr. Board Layout Designer: I need you to start a new pcb board design reverse engineering,
Attached is the Request for Quotation (RFQ), Payment method (POD), device under test (DUT) and bill of materials (BOM), the design must be completed by next Friday. I am going on vacation now, so hurry up and start!”
Cool that you described the entire project in a 12 letter acronym! Although these documents will provide a general idea of the scope of work, it is likely that the design engineer will ask you many questions, or worse… make a major mistake! While this may seem like an extreme example, it’s a fact of life that I’ve experienced firsthand!
After looking at design entry packages for decades, we’ve gotten good pcb board design documents such as schematic diagram, layout drawing, bom list and gerber file, entry packages, bad ones, and downright rubbish. Every printed circuit board cloning, when preparing project documentation, should keep in mind the term “garbage in, garbage out” in pc board layout design. The truth is, more than half of the design entry packages we get are incomplete, lacking circuit performance requirements, incomplete part numbers, and some big holes in the general specification.
Dare I say it’s a “napkin drawing”? However, this still happens and I find this situation to be a mixed bag as it reminds me of early board layout designs!