Hardware Development Basics

Introduction: Hardware development process takes a product from the early definition stage to form factor design. Production Definition/Scoping/Planing comes from market research and organizational objective and goals. As a system ee, we translate this product requirements into concrete electronic design in the following steps.

General design steps:

• 1. System Architecture

  2. Schematic Capture

  3. Board Layout

General development stages and schedule:

• 1. Prototyping (Proto)

  2. Engineering validation testing (EVT)

  3. Device validation testing (DVT)

General manufacturing stages:

• 1. Production validation testing (PVT)

  2. Mass production (MP)

Field Analysis

• 1. Early Field Failure Analysis (EFFA)