Developing and Managing Embedded Systems and Products: Methods, Techniques, Tools, Processes, and Teamwork

This Expert Guide gives you the knowledge, methods and techniques to develop and manage embedded systems successfully.  It shows that teamwork, development procedures, and program management require unique and wide ranging skills to develop a system, skills that most people can attain with persistence and effort.

With this book you will:

Understand the various business aspects of a project from budgets and schedules through contracts and market studiesUnderstand the place and timing for simulations, bench tests, and prototypes, and understand the differences between various formal methods such as FMECA, FTA, ETA, reliability, hazard analysis, and risk analysisLearn general design concerns such as the user interface, interfaces and partitioning, DFM, DFA, DFT, tradeoffs such as hardware versus software, buy versus build, processor choices, and algorithm choices, acquisition concerns, and interactions and comparisons between electronics, functions, software, mechanics, materials, security, maintenance, and support

Covers the life cycle for developing an embedded system: program management, procedures for design and development, manufacturing, maintenance, logistics, and legal issuesIncludes proven and practical techniques and advice on tackling critical issues reflecting the authors’ expertise developed from years of experience

1. Introduction to Good Development 2. Drivers of Success in Engineering Teams 3. Project Introduction 4. Dealing with Risk 5. Documentation 6. System Requirements 7. Analyses and Tradeoffs 8. The Discipline of System Design 9. Mechanical Design 10. Electronic Design 11. Software Design and Development 12. Security 13. Review 14. Test and Integration 15. Manufacturing 16. Logistics, Distribution, and Support 17. Agreements, Contracts, and Negotiations 18. Dealing with the Government 19. Agency and Getting Paid 20. Intellectual Property, Licensing, and Patents 21. Open Source Software 22. Laws That Can Nail Embedded Engineers 23. Corporate Operations, Export, and Compliance 24. Case Studies Appendix A: Dependability Calculations