Paul
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Raymond,
of course the following is my very personal opinion. There certainly is no definitive answer to such a question, as both solutions have as many advantages as drawbacks.
I (a design engineer) prefer working with layout engineers, which in my former company were also partially in charge of lab measurements. Layout engineers with no additional tasks may sooner or later get bored by their task, so I think it is necessary to assign other tasks, be it in tool support, lab tasks or others.
From my experience, it is harder to get design engineers deliver *all* the necessary information to layout designers than to get the latter draw layouts according to these specs. For this reason I believe that it is often unfair when circuit designers blame the layout engineers, simply because they forgot to define all the layout constraints.
Best
Paul
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