Hardware Designer

Definition

Hardware Designer
(a.k.a., Systems Engineer)

the role that is played when a person performs hardware component design tasks to produce the design of hardware component(s) during an endeavor

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Hardware Designer is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Designer
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Hardware Designer are to:

• Design any special purpose hardware components to be fabricated.
• Design any hardware user interfaces.

Hardware Designer typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, hardware designers should have the following expertise:

• Understanding of the system requirements and system architecture.
• Deep knowledge of hardware components.
• Deep knowledge of networks.
• A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or the equivalent.

Tasks

Hardware designers perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Design Tasks (of Hardware Component Design) :
  • Design Reuse
  • Design Production
  • Design Refactoring
  • Design Documentation
• Quality Engineering Tasks:
  • Quality Control - Architecture Evaluation
  • Quality Control - Environments Evaluation

Hardware designers typically inherit common role tasks from the role method component.

Teams

Hardware Designers typically perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Hardware Development Team
• User Interface Team (if a hardware user interface is to be produced)
• Evaluation Teams:
  • Architecture Evaluation Team
  • Environments Evaluation Team

Work Products

As members of these team, hardware designers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Design Work Products:
  • Hardware Design Document
  • Human Interface Design Document (if a hardware user interface is produced).
• Quality Work Products:
  • Inspection Report
  • Inspection Summary Report

Guidelines

• Include this role in the endeavor-specific process if new hardware is to be fabricated.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles method component.