Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorTheres always contracting a hardware guy to spin your design into a PCB for you. You can do it 5 times (each time fixing a different error introduced into the respin because you know nothing about power conditioning, various logic driver types or impedance matching and trace spacing) or pay someone for a few (4-6) weeks time to do it for you.
IMHO it's a financial no-brainer - it will cost a complete novice far more money to get a design right than to pay a professional... especially when you get the design back and it simply "doesn't work"... add to this that so many hardware types have been out due to the recession, in order to re-tool themselves, they not only have learned to use PCB layout tools but many already own the schematic capture and PCB layout packages needed to do their jobs (I know I do) as well as debug equipment... just my 2 cents
