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 ...

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 ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

Newark, June 24, 2010- nSys Design Systems, offering the world’s largest portfolio of Verification IPs, announced the availability of Functional Coverage Test Suites for its nSys Verification Suite ...

Many design teams now strive to create a viable design specification for early hardware/software coverification. Esterel Technologies' latest Esterel Studio release fills that bill by allowing ...

Wendy Lin of Saint Island International Patent & Law Offices examines two Taiwanese court decisions clarifying how purely functional features are assessed when examining design patents and challenges ...

As designs grow in size and complexity, the challenges associated with low power and the growing design and verification gap have created the need for a paradigm shift in the IP design and ...