Middle-out approaches concurrently combine the best aspects of traditional top-down and subsystem-level bottom up development methods. But is it enough? By John Blyler, Founding Systems Engineering, JB Systems In school, systems engineering is taught as a top-down process, but in actual practice is involved bottom-up techniques. In the former, the desired system is broken down or partitioned into smaller subsystem …

Attention – Electronics and semiconductor professionals in the Pacific Northwest! SEMI is having another half-day breakfast forum. Wearable devices have challenging requirements for power consumption, compactness, lightweight, low cost, high flexibility, ease-of-use, durability, and conformability. This technical forum will address and highlight recent advances, key challenges, current solutions, and future opportunities for wearable and flexible electronics. Presented by the SEMI …

Engineers need to consider the challenges when using 3D scanning technology.