WEEK 1 (FYP 2)

HARDWARE DESIGN

In engineering, hardware architecture refers to the identification of a systems's physical components and their interrelationships. This description, often called a 'hardware design model', allows hardware designers to understand how their components fit into a system architecture and provides to software component designers important information needed for software development and integration. Clear definition of a hardware architecture allows the various traditional engineering disciplines (e.g, electrical and mechanical engineering) to work more effectively together to develop and manufacture new machines, devices and components.

A hardware architecture is primarily concerned with the internal electrical interfaces among the system's components or subsystems, and the interface between the system and its external environment, especially the devices operated by or the electronic displays viewed by a user.

A hardware architecture generally includes some of analog, digital or hybrid electronic computer, along with electronic and mechanical sensors and actuators. Hardware design may be viewed as a 'partitioning scheme', or algorithm, which considers all of the system's present and foreseeable requirements and arranges the necessary hardware components into a workable set of cleanly bounded subsystems with no more parts than are required.

In both software and hardware, a good subsystem tends to be seen as a meaningful 'object'. Moreover, a clear allocation of user requirements to the architecture (hardware and software) provides an effective basis for validation tests of the user's requirement in the as-built system.

PROJECT HARDWARE

Hardware design is important to get the idea about how the project will look like. Besides, by doing the draft of the project hardware design, we can know the structure and the component that is needed. The picture below is the draft of hardware design for my Final Year Project. I need to construct my project as in the picture, but there may be some changes. 

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