Re: More Best Practices for Engineers

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:31:30 GMT, "Genome" <mrspamizgood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ooooooo....

Not that we are interested but this showed up in
misc.business.product-dev....


Yeah, the BP guy is over there whining as how we weren't nice to him,
inviting GM to pontificate.

And hey, how did your posts sneak in past The Moderator?
Consternation, there was.


Copied from Google... The original post is not on my news server.

From:jjlindula@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:Fri, Jun 2 2006 2:06 pm

Hello, I recently posted a list of Best Practices for Hardware
Engineers on another newsgroup. My intention was to learn what are the
key elements or habits that successful engineers do. I am a new
engineer and I do not claim to be an expert on anything. I only have a
desire to learn from the best. Here is my list:

1. Always have a top block diagram, in your schematics and in your FPGA
code
2. Follow the System Engineering Design Process Model
3. Document, Document, Document your work
4. Modularize your work
5. Try a Top Down design approach instead of Bottom Up
6. Ask for Peer Reviews and code walk throughs
7. If a standard exits then follow it.
8. Manage time, don't let time manage you.


9) Go easy on the beer at lunch.

10) Let the wire cool off before you clip the scope probe back on it.

11) Don't breadboard. Don't simulate. They just waste time and dilute
the excitement.

12) When you're really, really behind schedule, take a break.

13) Avoid machining.

14) Source terminate.

15) Orthogonality is your pal.

16) Ground everything, as many places as possible.

17) You're using too many bypass caps, and you don't have enough test
points.

18) Never implement your first idea.

19) Packaging.


John


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