Dave McGuire wrote: > On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Joerg wrote: >>>>> At the end of the day the only thing that counts is whether it's >>>>> good enough and it looks like DJ's board should perform pretty well >>>>> now. >>>> And yet I keep improving it anyway. >>> If there's one thing I've learned about working on layouts it's that >>> you're never really done - you just have to stop sometime. There's >>> always room for one last tweak! >>> >> It's like with uC programming. No matter how much ROM/Flash there >> is the >> programmer won't stop until he's at 90-95% fill level. One reason >> why I >> use a contract layouter. He does layouts completely sans any emotional >> feelings. The real good thing is he pretty much understands from >> looking >> at the schematic what areas are RF-critical. The only chat we >> really had >> during the layout last week was about the stock market. > > Eh. I think the results are often MUCH better if the person doing > the work truly CARES about it, at a personal level. The purposeful > de-humanization in the guise of "professionalism" has given us low- > quality, sloppy products. > > This is not to suggest that your layout guy does poor work...I'm > sure he's good, or you wouldn't use his services. >
He's one of very few guys to whom I'd say "This area around Q17 and Q18 is critical, it's RF stuff" and he'd respond "Yeah, I already saw that in the schematic and took care of things". The board before this one had even more parts, >600 or so IIRC. Had ten boards stuffed, plugged the first one into the system -> Worked! Professional layouters do care about their work because the results reflect back on them. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user