Modern Design Methods for Electronics

Widely used methods, such as copy, modify, cut and try, and graphical and mathematical analysis, tend to focus on circuits previously created. Mathematical synthesis of circuits is very limited in application. The synthesis of circuits or large-scale systems can be aided by a methodology called the engineering design process. To obtain the physical reality of an electronic design, so many decisions are needed that data reduction methods are required. Computer programs can simplify decision making by the analysis of interaction matrices. From architecture we get Alexander's HIDECS, and from psychology we get factor analysis programs. Their use and misuse is illustrated by the application of their rationales to the combining of subsystems of a color television receiver.