Abstract
This tutorial would introduce important issues in preparing, designing, and developing a product including: Systems Engineering – Process, design, and development; Architecture – Hardware, Software, Tradeoffs; Interface choices; Reliability versus fault tolerance; Review and Testing - Debugging, inspections, integration, validation, verification; Documentation; The Human Interface - User-centered design, elements of successful interfaces; Packaging - Its influence, environmental issues, wiring and assembly issues; Power - Types of converters and distribution; Cooling - Mechanisms, types of heat transfer, and tradeoffs; Problems - types of problems, failure, remedies, integrity.

Educational Course Subject Areas
Circuits & Devices

Keywords
integrity ,  embedded system ,  real-time ,  hard real-time ,  soft real-time ,  cohesion ,  coupling ,  ASIC ,  FPGA ,  DSP ,  RTOS ,  COTS ,  PCB ,  EMC ,  dependability ,  DFE ,  validation ,  verification