We have been fortunate to have a good relationship with our clients and many of their employees. When the COVID-19 outbreak hit, people wanted to use their skills to make… Read More
In Q1 2019 I had the privilege of leading a group of ten firmware, software and system engineers doing a grounds-up redesign of the machine control firmware and software control… Read More
As both California and Washington have Stay at Home orders due to the Coronavirus pandemic, everyone at Simplexity Product Development has been working from home for at least a couple… Read More
With over 4,500 companies touting their latest and greatest products, CES 2020 was a blast. We are certainly glad we made it to this impressive technology-driven event, one of the… Read More
General Impression at MD&M West 2020 We exhibited at the MD&M West Show this year and were excited by the networking connections we made. With 311,260+ Californians directly employed by… Read More
This past Halloween, Simplexity employees were given the opportunity to showcase their engineering expertise in the form of a friendly competition. The task was clear: “Design and build a Halloween-themed… Read More
As a firmware engineer, I’ve seen several themes repeat themselves over the years with regards to design philosophy. I’ve distilled these themes down into a few simple principles that have… Read More
In a follow up to our previous blog post, Top 10 Tips For Designing Injection Molded Plastic Parts, I have listed 10 more advanced tips for designing plastic injection molding… Read More
Last Fall, I got the opportunity to take a short trip down to San Francisco and attend the free AWS (Amazon Web Services) IoT Builders Day workshop. This event was… Read More
Have you run your firmware, found a repeatable bug, but weren’t able to reproduce the issue when single stepping through the code with your debugger? Maybe your internal watchdog block… Read More
Software: Design Complete
Hardware: Pre-production units for design verification
MFG. Readiness: CM schedule and budget, Unit build tracking
Software: Full feature implementationHardware: Prototype 2 units with production-representative materials and processes
Quality: Build Quality PlanSoftware: Core functionality implementationHardware: Prototype 1 units with rapid prototyped components
Quality: Critical manufacturing process identificationSoftware: Architecture design: block, sequence and state diagramsHardware: Major Component definition & Proof of Concept subsystems build
Quality: Design for Manufacturing tradeoffs evaluation