ROBUST ELECTRONIC DESIGN

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John R. Barnes KS4GL, PE, NCE, ESDC Eng, SM IEEE
June 11, 2004
jrbarnes@iglou.com

Companies and organizations develop products for sale to other people, companies, and organizations.

Doing a good job of specifying the design requirements up front will almost always speed up development of a product and make it go much more smoothly. These design requirements not only include the functions and features desired by users, but:

During development, a company may easily have ten times as many programmers/ engineers and testers working on the software/firmware as on the hardware. But during production, replication of the software/firmware is a nit compared to the time/effort/money spent: Some major concerns when developing a product are: During development, new electronic products share many of the characteristics of electronic equipment. But design, development, and testing must be done much more rigorously to meet all the legal requirements. Documentation must be very thorough and complete to meet the needs of: The Robust Electronic Design process asks designers and developers to adopt a "from the cradle to the grave" viewpoint of the product. Starting with the earliest concepts, and clear into production, we need to consider:
  1. Our customers:
  2. Our design and development process:
  3. Our manufacturing process(es):
  4. Service:
  5. The ultimate disposal of the equipment/product:
Robust Electronic Design, Inc. is the research arm of dBi Corporation, an A2LA-accredited EMC/EMI/ESD testing and consulting company based in Lexington, Kentucky. Our staff has been directly involved in putting over 115 major electronic products into mass production at Sycor, IBM, and Lexmark, as well as doing the EMC/ EMI/ ESD engineering tests and FCC/ CE-Mark approval tests for over 70 products and testers developed by clients--bringing them into compliance with both domestic and international laws and standards. Our staff has also served as expert witnesses in two lawsuits, one involving a personal-injury case, and the other involving semiconductor patent law. We have over 31 years experience in the computer and electronics industries developing electronic products and electronic equipment that:
  1. Work.
  2. Are safe and reliable.
  3. Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced economically.
  4. May be sold and used worldwide.
  5. Can be easily adapted/enhanced to meet new and changing requirements.

Our President, John R. Barnes, is a Professional Engineer licensed in the state of Kentucky, a NARTE-Certified Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer, a NARTE-Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Engineer, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an Advanced-class amateur radio operator. He has written three books, Electronic System Design: Interference and Noise Control Techniques, that was published in English and Russian, and Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes 1 and 2, which came out in March 2004. He has also written articles on designing electronics for electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity for Printed Circuit Design and Conformity magazines.

Robust Electronic Design, Inc. and dBi Corporation may be contacted by:

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Last revised June 11, 2004.