CAD tools are evolving to let design and manufacturing engineers create products based on their functions, eliminating the time-consuming task of entering data to build the components that make up a ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

What are software test libraries? The key role of diagnostic coverage in characterizing safety-mechanism effectiveness. How to approach target values. The magic behind today’s astonishing automotive ...

In basic layman’s terms, automotive safety is intended to enable an entire automotive electronic system to continue functioning in the event of a component malfunction. The goal of automotive safety ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...