- NVIDIA graphics cards<\/a> now pushing supercomputer status<\/a> with 21 billion transistors<\/a> <\/li>
- Largest gate count as of this writing is the 1 TB memory chips up around 2 trillion transistors<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Apollo Flight Computer (circa 1969)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n Back in July of last year, we celebrated the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the first moon landing<\/a>. The journey to the moon and back was made possible by one of the first integrated circuit guidance computers (~8400 transistors) with a massive 2k core and 32k rope memory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The guidance computer electronics were designed\/laid out with tape on Mylar on a drafting table. As we moved to higher gate counts and greater levels of integration for more computing power, we had to scale our electronic development processes. We had to move away from drafting tables, to CAD layouts, to schematic capture systems with silicon compilers, and then to hardware description languages to scale the complexity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We need to do the same thing for system engineering if we expect to survive the rising flood of complex electronics, with thousands of mechanical parts, controlled by millions of lines of code all working together (on top of millions of variations) in the products we are dealing with today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Just as electronics needed to be move to higher levels of integration, Systems Engineering needs to move to MBSE to scale <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n So, the MBSE \u201cwhy?\u201d for your organization is survival! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve also learned with my teenager you have about 30 seconds to get your point across (what\u2019s called an elevator speech, it\u2019s getting shorter, it used to be 118 seconds<\/a>). According to recent studies<\/a>, the attention span is getting even shorter for the internet-connected generation, so we\u2019ve boiled the reasons behind MBSE down to two short-attention-span 120-second videos: “Why MBSE” and “Why System Modeling”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why MBSE is needed for your product development survival? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Product complexity is growing<\/li>
- It\u2019s impossible to comprehend\/manage it all on your own (even adding more engineers to the problem) <\/li>
- If you don\u2019t manage it, you will have problem escapes that will cost you lots of time\/money<\/li>
- You need MBSE tools\/methods with PLM to help manage it all <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Electrical engineers figured this out already and went to higher levels of abstraction to keep up. Systems engineers will need to do the same because it is at the combinations of systems\/sub-systems where the big problems happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Largest gate count as of this writing is the 1 TB memory chips up around 2 trillion transistors<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n