Designers cope with push for shorter development cycles. (With speed drives development)

EDN, January, 1989 by Clarke, Michele

Designers cope with push for shorter development cycles In order to squeeze as much time and cost out of product-development cycles as possible in 1989, subsystem and system designers will have to create more modular, application-specific products that rely heavily on earlier architectures. This view comes from industry analysts, manufacturers, design engineers, and engineering managers alike.

The reason for this design strategy, they say, is to try to avoid technological problems that have tended to lengthen development cycles. Such problems have occurred when incorporating next-generation IC technologies and greater amounts of software into subsystem- and system-level designs. "Design cycles are becoming longer in spite of CAE," laments Marty...

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