Welcome to the Rational Solution for Electronic Design
The IBM Rational Solution for Electronic Design provides a proven set of best practices for the execution of key aspects of the electronic design lifecycle. They have been developed to support incremental adoption, accelerating the adoption of common process support, practices and tools so reducing the time to value for process improvement initiatives. The targets of this process content are teams performing aspects of electronic system level design and those performing detailed design of analog or custom semiconductors.
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Welcome to the Rational Solution for Electronic Design Website!

This website includes the practices and the main workflows for Electronic Design with a focus on the high-level modeling of electronic system design and the design management of analog IP Blocks. This content will be of value to teams facing more multi-site, multi-party, day-to-day operations for complex design activities. These capabilities will help teams communicate and collaborate consistently, save time and reduce errors and rework. By reducing engineering costs and cycle time, and by increasing design accuracy, more time will be made available for innovation and analog creativity, with the goal to drive quality and differentiation.

It also includes tool configuration assets and instructions. See Tools Setup and Configuration for more information.


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Electronic Design

These electronic design practices reflect the accumulated experience of IBM Rational working with high-tech electronics and semiconductor companies, in addition within IBM. This process guidance covers definition and steering of change requests, through design authority approval, aspects of system level design, aspects of detailed analog design, design review and subsequent release. The change request mechanism is the main driver for the defined workflows.

These practices complement those available for Systems Engineering and Embedded Software development, along with those available for specific industry standards, such as ISO26262.