Category: Electronics Product Development

  • Electronics Design: PCB Layout

    PCB Layout After the Schematic Capture component of the Electronics Design  is complete, the logical connections for the electronics components have been determined. If the Electronics CAD package also supports it, you can add rules to guide the Printed Circuit Board Layout, also abbreviated to PCB Layout which we will…

  • Fine Pitch PCB

    Fine Pitch Printed Circuit Board This example is from a project coming to the end of the Proof of Concept phase. So we have done the Electronics Design and also completed the PCB Layout. I can’t tell you what it does, but you don’t really need to know in order…

  • Electronics Design: Schematic Capture

    Schematic Capture Schematic Capture is the process of defining the logic connections between different components in an Electronic Circuit. At the end of the process you have a diagram or Schematic of the circuit. That’s a complicated way of saying that it shows the connections between the selected components. We…

  • Electronics Design: Component Selection

    Component Selection We have worked our way through Requirements Capture and Technology Selection. After doing some initial design work and deciding on how the circuit will work, you have to find components that you can buy on a reasonable lead time and at a reasonable price. This depends a lot…

  • Electronics Design: Technology Selection

    Technology Selection Before we look at how to choose a Technology, what does Technology mean? In very general terms, Technology is understanding how stuff works and how to get it to do what you want. There is lots of different stuff available. In the case of Electronics Design this stuff…

  • Electronics Design: Requirements Capture

    Requirements Capture Product Development is the core process your use when you have a great idea for a new product, or an improved version of an existing one. The very first step is to define what it is meant to do.   This first step is known as Requirements Capture.…

  • Electronics Design: Process

    Electronics Design The Electronics Design Process involves a number of steps. Unless what you are doing is a minor tweak to an existing product, you will use these steps. Over the next few weeks I will unpack what is involved in each step but this post is just going to…

  • Product Development Process

    Product Development As a technical professional, I tend to think of the Product Development Process, also known as New Product Development, as the creation of the product technology through to a working unit that can then be manufactured. And of course managing risk to Improve Product Development Outcomes. The only…

  • Visualisation: Part 2

    The Client Perspective What you see depends on which direction you are looking from.   If you count from the top, there are 10 bars. But there are only 7 bars when you count from the bottom. In this case it is an optical illusion based on how the drawing…

  • SEMIP Innovation Showcase 2013

    The SEMIP Innovation Showcase 2013 was a very useful look at the future of technology commercialisation in Australia, including some of the roadblocks and an excellent example of overseas success.