Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. When developing industrial and consumer products, my team ...

Having discussed prototypes that are created before the existence of RTL, or model the hardware at a higher level of abstraction, we now turn out attention to those prototypes that are at the RT level ...

Prototyping and design processes form the cornerstone of innovative product development, facilitating the transformation of conceptual ideas into tangible, testable models. Recent advancements have ...

In previous articles I have talked about prototyping in general “Prototypes: What is a prototype?” and some of the consideration when deciding if a prototype would be beneficial, and then deciding on ...

In this digital world, it may be hard for some to believe that there’s still a place for anything manual or physical—especially in the engineering realm. And, while it’s true that today’s technologies ...

Much has been written about the rise of field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) -based platforms over application-specific-integrated-circuit (ASIC) implementations. During the last few years, FPGAs have ...

Computer-aided design, or cad software, has emerged as one of the most disruptive technologies reshaping how industries envision, prototype, and manufacture products. Once reserved for specialist ...