08/02/2023

The days when embedded systems had to perform simple, dedicated, and manageable tasks are long gone. Features such as Bluetooth connectivity, safety, security, extensive configuration options, and the combination of multiple systems into a larger one (because microcontrollers have become more powerful) allow ...

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Have you considered functional safety for your medical device? And if not, do you have an overview of what functional safety actually is? If not, I would like to give you an introduction to the topic in this article. Because ...

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08/16/2019

Finite state machines, also known as state machines or state diagrams, define the possible states of a system. Documentation can be presented in tabular or graphical form. Since the number of table rows increases significantly with the number of states, ...

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How are requirements and architecture related? What is contained in the requirements and what in the architecture? And how do architecture and requirements interact? In this article, I describe this relationship and introduce the SYSMOD ZIGZAG pattern. What and ...

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Why on earth did we decide that way back then? Who hasn't wondered during development what the basis was for an architectural decision? When developing complex systems, decisions about... ...

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How do you create an architecture for a mechanical specification? I want to answer this question in this blog post. A system consists of various components that are connected to each other electrically, mechanically, optically, or pneumatically. But how can you do this in a ...

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