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4 The PCB Design Magazine • October 2015 Accelerating the Design Cycle: Moving From Discipline-Centric to Product-Centric Design by Bob Potock Don't Be Held Hostage by Design Cycle Time by Scott Miller Feature Column Speeding up the Design Cycle: 10 Things to Remember by Mark Thompson The Readers Speak: Tips on Accelerating Your Design Cycle by Andy Shaughnessy As board speeds and densities continue to increase, it's becoming more difficult for PCB designers to shorten their design cycles and meet time-to-market demands. This month, we're featuring articles by Scott Miller of Freedom CAD Services, Bob Potock of Zuken, and Mark Thompson of Prototron Circuits, as well as tips from our subscribers on accelerating the PCB design cycle. 12 20 36 30 October 2015 Accelerating the PCB Design Cycle T h i s M O n T h ' s F e aT u r e a r T i c l e s

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• Feature Articles — Accelerating the PCB Design Cycle
• Table of Contents
• Column — Squeezing Seconds Out of the Design Cycle
• Feature — Don't Be Held Hostage by Design Cycle Time
• Short — Whelen Engineering: The First New Captive in Decades?
• Feature — Accelerating the Design Cycle: Moving from Discipline-Centric to Product-Centric Design
• Short — Discovery about New Battery Overturns Decades of False Assumptions
• Feature — The Readers Speak: Tips on Accelerating Your Design Cycle
• Short — Superconductivity Trained to Promote Magnetization
• PCB007 Highlights
• Feature Column — Speeding up the Design Cycle: 10 Things to Remember
• Column — Stackup Planning, Part 4
• Short — Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
• Column — Avoiding the Black Spot of Negative Expectations
• Short — Back to the Future: Science Fiction Turns Science Fact
• Column — Impact of Final Plated Finish on PCB Loss
• Short — How Leaky is Your Device?
• MilAero007 Highlights
• Article — The Gerber Guide, Chapter 3
• Article — Analyzing Condensation and Evaporation in Headlights with Thermal Simulation
• Short — Energy Out of Thin Air
• Top Ten Recent Highlights from PCBDesign007
• Events Calendar
• Advertiser Index and Masthead