2. Requirements Analysis in Hardware System Design
Requirements analysis is essential in hardware system design, focusing on identifying stakeholder needs and translating these into technical specifications to ensure system performance. Various types of requirements include functional, non-functional, and regulatory aspects. Effective techniques for gathering and documenting requirements contribute to a structured approach that mitigates risks and enhances stakeholder involvement.
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What we have learnt
- Requirements analysis lays the foundation for successful hardware design.
- Capture functional, performance, and environmental requirements through structured techniques.
- Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and traceable to avoid design gaps.
- A well-executed analysis process aligns all teams and reduces downstream risk.
Key Concepts
- -- Functional Requirements
- What the system must do, such as sensing temperature and sending data wirelessly.
- -- NonFunctional Requirements
- How the system should perform, including aspects like speed, accuracy, and environmental conditions.
- -- Stakeholder Identification
- The process of recognizing all parties involved in the project, crucial for capturing comprehensive requirements.
- -- Requirement Validation
- Ensuring collected requirements meet quality standards: clear, complete, consistent, testable, and traceable.
- -- Requirements Prioritization
- The technique to categorize requirements based on their criticality, using methods such as MoSCoW or Risk-Based Prioritization.
- -- Traceability
- Connecting requirements to their corresponding design, testing, and validation artifacts to ensure alignment.
- -- Common Pitfalls
- Strategies used to avoid issues in requirement analysis, such as ambiguous requirements and lack of stakeholder involvement.
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