As the cost of bringing complex high-performance systems to market increases and the time to market decreases, new methods must be used to insure first-pass design success. This paper describes a design method that establishes excellent signal integrity at the lowest reasonable cost and with a verifiable design methodology. By approaching the design with a coordinated approach of field solver and measurement-based modeling methods, the net process is verifiable, and problems with the design can be uncovered and resolved in the shortest time. This process yields incredible time- and frequency-domain performance using off-the-shelf, generic, non-esoteric, non-expensive materials.