The system design process can incorporate linear thinking, parallel thinking, or both, depending on the nature of the anticipated system, subsystem, or element of a subsystem. The structure, ...

AI can help design AI systems: automating architecture choices, discovering algorithms, and optimizing hardware ...

During the last two decades, CMOS technologists have used scaling to deal with ever-increasing system complexity and performance requirements. Digital abstraction allowed process technology to evolve ...

Optical design has been a topic of considerable importance in advancing how humans explore the unknown world. In the past, optical design was tedious ‘manual’ work. Now, with the rapid development in ...

This article aims at defining system architecting and explaining its importance in today’s complex designs. System architecting is placed and analyzed in the context of industry practices and trends ...

Designing electronic systems has become measurably more complex during the past decade. Many of the products that are developed today are in-fact complex interconnected systems. Using the automotive ...

Once upon a time, integrated circuits (ICs) were built by the same companies that designed them. The design of an IC was tightly integrated with the manufacturing processes available within each ...

When architects design a commercial building, they usually turn the design over to a specialized consulting firm to plan the ...

As a young teenager rambling around my house in the 1980s, back in a time when there was nothing on TV and no internet, I recall coming across a copy of Harry Stack Sullivan’s book, Conceptions of ...