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Extra eyes for PDB schematic and layout?

frankcohen
Hi 14-ers, this is my first post to the forums. I hope it's not too strange of a question. I am excited to be working on a new open-source platform (hardware and software) for making mobile storytelling experiences. (https://github.com/frankcohen/ReflectionsOS). I hired a freelance PCB designer to take my breadboard and create the schematic and layout. I will be taking the design to a board assembly company to build prototypes - along the path to manufacturing. I am new to the PCB designer community. Is it acceptable practice to ask other PCB designers here to review the schematic and layout? Is Element14 forums the right place? Should I hire someone to be a reviewer? I'm thinking the more eyes on it the better it will be. -Frank

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  • I’d be careful with this sort of request to be honest.  If, as you say, you have hired four designers to come up with an acceptable solution, you really need to trust what they say to you.  If you can’t establish that trust that in itself is a flag for the solution.  Asking elsewhere for additional reviews may well garner you lots of responses but you have no idea of the expertise of those providing them, nor, I suspect, have the experience to decide if those responses are valid or not.  Presenting them ad-hoc to your hired designers may well cause trouble!

    A better approach may be to ask “what questions should I be asking the designers to help me review the board?”  - again, you have the same issue of not knowing the experience of those who answer and you may not really understand it enough to know whether your designers’ response is good or not but it at least gives you time to do some research.

    As I said at the start, personally I’d go with trusting your designers and your instincts and then iterate with your chosen designer/solution.

    I’m not a PCB expert so wouldn’t want to comment as a reviewer.  I always worry about my own designs when I submit them to manufacture Grinning

  • in reply to Andrew J

    Thank you for the caution Andrew. I see PCB design as an art, more than a science. The more times an artist makes things the better they get at it. With science it always works the same way every time. It seems my job, noob PCB designer or not, is to support the designers, including the purely human experience of artfully designing the boards. I'll let you know how this works out. -Frank

  • in reply to frankcohen
    frankcohen said:
    I see PCB design as an art, more than a science.

    I'd replace art by craft. A (to be) acquired skill.

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