32 НАУЧНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ И НОВЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ Design methodology for first pass success Walters Power Electronics, LLC Market dynamics and competition demand timely new products. <...> This increases the pressure to speed-up product development. <...> In this article, the author recounts his experience and the role of simulation to reduce and even eliminate design iterations to minimize development time. <...> This rate of technological change is challenging engineers to speed up their new product development cycle. <...> The design methodology presented here promotes the virtues of power system modeling and simulation. <...> Specifically, this design methodology reduces the number of design iterations for integrated circuit (IC) design and development, and is broadly applicable to all power electronic design. <...> I detail my experience with fast time-to-market IC development and contrast the approach with other techniques intended to reduce the product development time. <...> Figure 1 illustrates the steps of the product development process. <...> The development starts with the new product requirements as an input to the design phase. <...> Fabrication builds the product from the design, followed by validation that the product meets the requirements. <...> If during the validation step the product does not meet the requirements, the design must be revisited (the arrow). <...> The steps of design, fabrication, and validation, commonly known as the development cycle, repeat until the product successfully meets the requirements for release to production. <...> The market and competition pressure companies to reduce the time-to-market for their products. <...> Better understanding of the design reduces the number of iterations. <...> Companies actively discourage any activity that increases the design time. <...> However, by the time the development has advanced to hardware, there are a number of constraints on solving any issues. <...> It is more expensive to change the form factor or add components at this phase of development compared with exposing and mitigating issues during the design phase. <...> Simulating the design to expose issues allows less costly resolution during the design phase and minimizes development cycle iterations. <...> Some believe it is counter intuitive to increase the design time with a simulation task. <...> Some simulation tools have a steep learning curve requiring the engineer to expend effort understanding the tool’s operations and procedures. <...> Engineers would rightfully prefer to expend their effort on their assigned <...>