Types of Design Environments
The iCDB design environment supports design environments for concurrent design including whole flow (both front-end and back-end) or schematic capture only.
To see how concurrent design works in a basic network configuration, see Concurrent Design Quick Start.
Whole Flow Concurrent Design: Schematic engineers can work on schematics while layout designers place and route previous versions of the schematics.
Each project has a central database (iCDB) that all tools in the flow access. Back-end tools receive schematic updates through forward-annotation, and front-end tools receive layout updates through back-annotation.
For more information, see Integrated Common Database (iCDB).
Schematic Capture Concurrent Design: Multiple schematic engineers can work on the same schematic at the same time if the project has an RSCM Server defined.
Concurrent design does not extend to schematic sheets. Only one designer at a time can edit a schematic sheet.
For more information, see Remote Server Configuration Manager (RSCM) or RSCM Server Administration.
Depending on which features you install, you can set up your design environment for the following types of concurrent design.
