White Paper
Development Mode: The New Design Paradigm for PCB Innovation
This white paper examines the fundamental shift from production-optimized PCB workflows to development-focused iteration cycles that prioritize exploration over perfection. Through analysis of current R&D bottlenecks and emerging design methodologies, it reveals how Development Mode enables teams to generate multiple design candidates in minutes rather than weeks—fundamentally changing how engineers approach prototyping. The paper demonstrates why this paradigm shift represents the inevitable evolution of PCB design, as essential as the transition from manual drafting to CAD.
Key Takeaways
- Understand how Development Mode reduces time-to-insight from weeks to hours through rapid iteration cycles
- Learn why optimizing for exploration beats optimizing for production in R&D environments
- Discover how multiple design candidates enable parallel validation of competing approaches
- Identify the operational bottlenecks that Development Mode eliminates in your current workflow
- Evaluate how physics-validated iteration changes the risk profile of hardware innovation
Development Mode: The New Design Paradigm for PCB Innovation
