ROBUST ELECTRONIC DESIGN

Executive Summary

John R. Barnes Consultant
March 2, 2002
jrbarnes@iglou.com

The goal of Robust Electronic Design is to put products into production, profitably. This includes not only the initial design/development and manufacturing of the products, but also supporting your customers so that they will continue to buy and use your company's goods and services.

Design/development is an iterative (looping) process:
design/development process

Robust Electronic Design pushes as many as possible of these trial-and-error cycles to the front end of the design/development process. While a product is still pencil marks on paper, or bits in a computer's memory, decisions can be:

By making this up-front investment in Robust Electronic Design, a company can: For an electronic product that your company will sell or lease to others, Robust Electronic Design's focus is that the product:
  1. Works safely and reliably.
  2. Can be manufactured economically, for as long as desired.
  3. May be marketed and used worldwide.
  4. Can be easily adapted/upgraded to meet your customers' changing needs.
For electronic equipment that your company uses to develop/manufacture/test/ repair/calibrate/maintain your company's products and services, Robust Electronic Design's focus is that the equipment:
  1. Works safely and reliably.
  2. Can be built and debugged quickly, then maintained for as long as it may be needed.
  3. May be used wherever it is needed.
  4. Can be easily adapted to handle new/additional product requirements and new products.
The principles of Robust Electronic Design have been applied and refined over nearly three decades in the computer and electronics industries. Sycor, IBM and Lexmark have used these principles to develop, and put into mass production, intelligent terminals, printers, network adapters, and Digital-Office products.
Robust Electronic Design, Inc. is the research arm of dBi Corporation, an EMC testing and consulting company based in Lexington, Kentucky. Our staff has been directly involved in putting over 110 major products into mass production at Sycor, IBM, and Lexmark. Our specialties include: We have over 29 years experience designing/developing and putting products into production, supporting them in the field, and killing them off when they become obsolete. Our experience spans over 32 types of CISC and RISC microprocessors and microcontrollers, from the original Intel 8008 up through 1.26GHz Intel Celerons and Pentium III's. We have developed products with a wide range of semiconductor memories, from EPROM's up through 133MHz SDRAM's. We have developed products with a variety of local-area network (LAN) and peripheral interfaces, including Ethernet, IDE, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), LocalTalk, MODEM's, parallel, PCI, serial, Token-Ring, and USB. And we have used chipsets, ASIC's, FPGA's, and PAL's from a number of vendors to glue these pieces together to make them work.

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

Last revised March 2, 2002.