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10 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2022 Do you ever feel like you're designing in a vacuum? If so, you are not alone. is month's topic came to us during an edi- torial meeting. We were discussing some of the PCB design classes at recent industry con- ferences—classes on signal integrity, supply chain management, DFM, and EMC. But aer talking with designers who have grown accus- tomed to laying out boards without knowing where their boards would be manufactured, not to mention such info as impedance require- ments, it dawned on us. What the design community really needs to do is focus on designing in a vacuum. Is DIV the next industry acronym? We surveyed our design and design engineer readers, and nearly half of respondents said they always or quite oen design boards in a The Shaughnessy Report by Andy Shaughnessy, I-CONNECT007 Are You Designing in a Vacuum?