1. How customer needs and research on a product lead to defining design specifications? What are some of the considerations in developing these specifications?
2. What are the five steps of the process of identifying customer needs?
3. What negative impacts can result if design changes are made after a project is released to production?
4. What constitutes the successful completion of an engineering project to develop a new product?
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the communications protocols SCI and SPI?
6. Discuss Local Interconnect Network interface.
7. Give your opinion on this: the CAN protocol that would be most suitable for a robot car project. This protocol allows for communication between processors in addition to components such as sensors and devices. The LIN interface could also be used but wireless capabilities are not required for this project.
8. Give your opinion on this: The CAN bus was developed by BOSCH(1) as a multi-master, message broadcast system that specifies a maximum signaling rate of 1 megabit per second (bps). Unlike a traditional network such as USB or Ethernet, CAN does not send large blocks of data point-to-point from node A to node B under the supervision of a central bus master. In a CAN network, many short messages like temperature or RPM are broadcast to the entire network, which provides for data consistency in every node of the system.