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)