Hardware Component Design

Definition

Hardware design is the design subactivity involving the design of the hardware components of an application.

Goals

• Produce, document, and maintain the detailed tactical structure and behavior of the application’s hardware components.

Objectives

The typical objectives of hardware design are to:

• Determine the logical structure of the hardware components.
• Maximize the quality of the hardware component design:
  • In terms of correctness, completeness, consistency, and understandability.
  • To meet the requirements (operational, informational, and quality).
  • To meet the design constraints, and
  • To conform to the hardware architectures.
• Maximize the productivity of the hardware development team (e.g., reuse of existing designs, reuse of design conventions, and existence of example documents).

Examples

Typical examples of hardware component design include the design of:

• Application-specific hardware components.
• Reusable hardware components.

Preconditions

Hardware component design typically may begin when the following preconditions hold:

• The initiation phase has started.
• The hardware development team is initially staffed and adequately trained in design.
• The following documents are largely complete and are relatively stable:
  • Requirements Documents:
    • Application Vision Statement
    • Requirements Executive Summary
    • System Requirements Specification
    • External API Specification
    • Glossary
  • Architecture Documents:
    • System Architecture Document
    • Contact Center Architecture Document
    • Data Center Architecture Document

Tasks

Hardware component design typically involves the following producers performing the following design tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel and time-boxed manner:

• Hardware Development Team, which performs:
  • Design Reuse
  • Design Prototyping
  • Design Production
  • Design Refactoring
  • Design Documentation

Work Products

Hardware component design typically results in the production of all or part of the following design work products:

• Documentation:
  • Hardware Design Document

Guidelines

• TBD