Solcept Embedded System Process

What Constitutes an Embedded System?

A typical embedded system consists of electronics (hardware), programs (software) and mechanics, the later at least being the housing. In many cases the outcome can be improved by an industrial designer for looks and user friendliness.

What Disciplines do Collaborate?

Solcept's software and hardware developmencollaborates with mechanical engineering and industrial design of our partners in an optimal way. Each of these disciplines requires its own processes and approvals.

Software development is the most flexible (especially if agile processes are used), for electronics and especially mechanics the flexibility is diminishing at the point when tooling starts.

What is the Goal of the Process Description?

Integration: We have integrated the process steps of those four disciplines and synchronized with releases/ gates and steps on system level.

Agility: Thereby we tried to stick to the standard procedures of the different areas while not losing the advantages of agile/ lean development as described in our credo.

What about specification changes?

Specification changes are a normal part of the development process. But the effort for changes in the different phases varies, the later in the project, the more expensive.

The main goal of the process is to keep the development agile as long as possible, i.e. changes are allowed (at the price of higher development effort) up to the moment when real manufacturing data are produced.

Generic Solcept Process Description

The following flyer describes the development process for embedded systems that we offer in collaboration with our partners.

The generic template will be adapted pragmatically to the project at hand.

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