Technical Paper
A Building Blocks Method to Estimate Electronics Size and Calculate Productivity
2014-04-01
2014-01-0227
“Historically and to this day, software has been leading the way in defining metrics, methods and practices towards estimation of size and calculation of productivity. This is mostly due to the inherent need of the software industry to manage large volumes of code and the related large development efforts involved. Relatively, Hardware or Electronics design is a small effort compared to its Software counterparts, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more. There has never been a serious attempt made to create a model for Hardware size estimation and therefore a productivity model\. This paper describes a novel method of size estimation and quantitative productivity measurement for Electronic Hardware Design.
