Engaging with an ASIC development partner can take many forms. The intended chip may be as simple as a microcontroller, as sophisticated as an AI-based edge computing system-on-chip (SoC), or even a ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

The system design process can incorporate linear thinking, parallel thinking, or both, depending on the nature of the anticipated system, subsystem, or element of a subsystem. The structure, ...

Identifying design opportunities involves spotting problems or needs that can be improved through design A design brief clearly describes the problem, goals, and specific requirements of the project ...

Previous installments in this series have reviewed various concepts of how to evaluate your fire department's apparatus needs, how to initiate the apparatus committee and several methods for gathering ...

Current specification flows often use standard text processors to capture formal register and memory map information of hardware designs along with other less formal types of specification text.