Building Differentiated Products Through Shorter, More Predictable Design Cycles

To position themselves for growth in today’s market, systems companies need to build highly
differentiated products; reduce time to market; and focus on compliant, environmentally aware
designs. This paper addresses the first two challenges—the needs to build differentiated products
and reduce time to market. It discusses new design techniques, processes, and methodologies that
can reduce design cycles by as much as 40%.