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 ...

Ask most electronics developers what they do for a living and, most of the time, you’ll get an answer describing the kinds of products they develop. But the truth of the matter is much more mundane.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this month about making teaching documents of all kinds more accessible. Some of this is about a syllabus, but some of it is about rethinking some of our signs and ...

Meeting customer demand for a medical device can be daunting. Manufacturers face significant challenges in efficiently scaling up production, ranging from product design to documentation to ...

I suspect we’ve all been on the receiving end of poorly-designed documents: pages drowning in enormous gray oceans of text with no navigational cues whatsoever; emphasis indicated by text that is bold ...

To begin any embedded system-level design, the developer needs a clear understanding of what the final software design must accomplish. The source of this information is the system requirements ...

In most cases, the design that used a lot of photos and icons is an excellent tool that can show important information clearly. Compared to documents without pictures, 60% of readers who read a ...

Inefficiencies for OEMs to use PDF-only datasheet documentation of integrated circuits. Standards that address electronic documentation for I 2 C, SPMI, SPI, and JTAG devices. ROI: Faster volume sales ...

Developed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), the ISA-5 series of standards are essential for industries that rely on complex instrumentation and control systems, including chemical ...

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 ...