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 ...

This is the seventh article in a series about my career experiences in the PCB design industry. The previous articles discuss my lessons learned as a designer, running a service bureau, and my initial ...

I like to design the UI while writing the functional spec, this gives me a feel for what the user is going to have to do to complete a given task, and allows me to streamline the operation of the ...

Larry Ellison was a no-show--out with the flu--but Oracle President Charles Phillips led the Fusion proceedings at City Hall in San Francisco. Phillips stated that the one new headline for the event ...

HVAC product selection is not as easy as it sometimes seems. For sure, the key part of engineering is the KIS principle (Keep It Simple). However, the KID principle (Keep It Defendable) is even more ...

The South African Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC) is expected to adopt a functional specification for proximity detection systems (PDSes) by April this year, says mine safety equipment supplier ...

Business drivers, such as improved time-to-market and better resource utilization, are factoring ever more into the system-on-chip development process. One widely accepted method to meet those goals ...