At the beginning of the design phase, it is important to enumerate the exact customer requirements that your design must satisfy. The Product Design Specification tool, or PDS, is a tool that is ...

Chip design is getting more and more challenging in terms of power, performance, area and IP integration. At the same time, competition and time-to-market are forcing much tighter schedules. The ...

The American Wood Council recently released a new publication for fire design of wood members, assemblies, and connections to meet code requirements. Since 2001, the National Design Specification for ...

This paper describes the methodology employed during the development of a System on Chip (SoC) platform developed for automotive applications. The methodology is based on the following major aspects.

When reviewing power-supply specification requirements and supporting design proposals, we often see the minimum load identified as 0 A loading. Although not an issue in and of itself, this no-load ...

Do you need a design or functional specification? It depends on who your audience is and where you are in the product development cycle. People often confuse the purpose and role of functional ...

The design, development and delivery of magnetic components for production is a complex process; it involves various organizations, skills and people. The design development process begins once ...

While the topic of timing has already been raised in previous parts in this series, the discussion here will be expanded to include the execution and response time of the software functions. When ...