Dynamic Printed Circuit Board Design Reuse

Abstract

Techniques for enabling the dynamic reuse of printed circuit board designs are provided. A master printed circuit board design comprising a plurality of modular flexible designs is received. Additionally, a target design that includes ones of the plurality of flexible designs is identified. Subsequently, as the master design, or ones of the plurality of flexible designs within the master design, are modified, the target design is correspondingly modified. With some implementations, the master design is housed within a library. The library may be used to implement versioning capability for the flexible designs. With further implementations, the master design may itself be a target design.

1 . A method for dynamically modifying a target printed circuit board design based upon changes to a master printed circuit board design, the method comprising:
 identifying a master printed circuit board design, the master printed circuit board design being partitioned into a plurality of flexible circuit designs;   identifying a target printed circuit board design, the target printed circuit board design including one or more of the plurality of flexible circuit designs;   receiving a modification request for a one of the plurality of flexible circuit designs;   modifying the target printed circuit board design, based in part upon the modification request; and   saving the modified target printed circuit board design to a memory storage location.