On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Vitaliy wrote: >> Is that true? I thought there were too many software and to a lesser >> extent firmware developer and not enough hardware developers? ;-) > > My cousin (an EE) told me that hardware design at Kyocera had been reduced > to "hook up this module to this module, here's a diagram that shows you > how". This will not work for many sections, at least not for our product (PLC related). > At our company, hardware design constitutes a small fraction of the overall > development effort. We can go from a sketch on the proverbial napkin, to > finished PCB layout typically within a week or so. Firmware development > takes many many months. > > Why do you ask? Is the situation different at your company? Because I am mostly a hardware designer. :-) But seriously, there are not many good engineers who can design power supply circuits. There are even fewer who can deal with EMC/EMI issues with enough expertise (I admit I am not good in this aspect either). It can take months or years to solve EMC/EMI problems... In my particular division, often hardware and firmware are of equal importance. But you are right, firmware/software engineers far outnumber the hardware engineer in the company. Software becomes more and more important now. You will not be able to finish our hardware design in a napkin even though I did receive a good power supply circuits on a napkin from a guru a few years back. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist