Portable Electronics Product Design and Development (Professional Engineering) - Hardcover

Haskell, Bert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071416390 ISBN 13: 9780071416399

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Synopsis

Portable electronics are the fastest growing area of the dynamic consumer electronics industry, but developing successful products is extremely difficult. Between interface and size issues, portable electronic present some of the toughest design and engineering challenges in all of technology. This book breaks the complex design process down into its component parts, detailing every crucial issue from interface design to chip packaging, always keeping the reader focused upon the key design parameters of convenience, utility, and size that make or break a product in the marketplace.

About this title

About the Author

Bert Haskell (Austin, TX) is Vice President for Product Development at the Stellar Display Corporation. He has previously served as Director of Marketing for Interactive TV and Wireless Devices at Concero, Inc., and VP, Portable and Consumer Electronics at the MCC Corp. He has B.S. and M.S in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and is a contributor to Anytime Anywhere Computing, a textbook published by Kluwer.

From the Back Cover

IT'S ALL IN THE DETAILS:
Interfaces
Displays
Buttons
Dials
Keypads
Pen Input
Speakers
Microphones
Antennae
Sensors
Ports
Processing
Microprocessors
Logic Devices
Microcontrollers
DSP
Analog Devices
Sensors
Wireless Communications
System Memory
Mass Storage
Software & Communications
Mass Storage
Power Sources
Electronic Packaging
Circuit Boards
IC Packaging
Discrete Components
Connectors
Mechanical Assemblies
Housing
Shielding
Display Bezels
Thermal Management
Hinges
Ruggedization

Plan Product Success -- One Component at a Time

For product designers and engineers, this is an ideal roadmap to developing cutting-edge consumer portable electronics. Portable Electronics Product Design and Development is a powerful engineering tutorial that approaches design component by component, offering priceless guidance on key decisions, including selection and integration of every element in electronic portables.

Author and engineer Bert Haskell, an electronics product design specialist, sets the stage with a succinct assessment of the portable electronics marketplace, analyzing the features that consumers do like and the flaws they do not like. Then he offers valuable engineering insights and component comparisons you can use to improve the way your products work and look, and to help them fare better in the marketplace. In the concluding chapters, he offers unique insights into the economics that drive the portable electronics industry and a creative vision for shaping future product concepts.

FEATURES CASE STUDIES OF LANDMARK SUCCESSES -- CELL PHONES, CAMCORDERS, AND DIGITAL CAMERAS

This powerful engineering guide will help you:
* Solve interface and size problems
* Maintain parameters of convenience, utility, and portability
* Assess the cost of technology tradeoffs
* Find effective answers on issues such as thermal management, shielding, and durability
* Avoid consumer turnoffs

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071416390
• ISBN 13: 9780071416399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 372