This document outlines the scope of work for a biometric authentication hardware design consultation project. It describes the challenges faced by the original project team including chaos, bugs, delays, and lack of coordination. It then details how the new consulting firm improved the project by bringing it under control, accelerating the schedule, improving quality, and reducing resources and costs. The scope of work includes hardware design verification, testing, validation, certification support, and mentoring the customer engineering team. Required tools include design software, testing equipment, and 3D modeling software. The benefits to the customer include improved quality, accelerated project, reduced costs, and better cross-functional team coordination.

1. Biometric Authentication Hardware Design
Consultation
Case Study
November, 2013

2. AGENDA
•Project Specification & Challenges
•Scope of Work
•Pre-requisites
•Required Tools
•Customer Benefits

3. Top level Specifications
•Multi board System
•Multiple variants of product
•AM3354 SoC from Texas Instruments
•512MB DDR3 memory
•512MB NAND Flash
•10/100 Mbps Ethernet
•USB 2.0
•LED indications
•External high voltage input/outputs
•3.4” Color TFT LCD
•Capacitive Touch Screen
•Finger print sensor interface
•Smart Card reader (13.56MHz)
•Proximity Card Reader (125KHz)

4. Challenges
BEFORE TEQ DILIGENT TAKE OVER PROJECT
•Chaos in the Project
•Lots of bugs in proto type boards
•Project was delayed badly
•Project was over loaded by many resources
•Lack of coordination between cross functional teams (Mech. / SW / HW)
•Quality of deliverables were not up to the mark
AFTER TEQ DILIGENT TAKE OVER PROJECT
•Project under control
•Minimal bugs in second revision of boards
•Project accelerated
•Number of resources are reduced
•Coordination Improved between cross functional teams
•Quality of deliverables improved to next levels

5. Scope of Work
Hardware Design Consultation
•Schematic Verification
•Layout Design Verification
•Bring-up Testing
•Functional Testing
•Hardware Validation
•Pre-Scan tests
•Support for Certification Tests
•Support for Pilot Production
•Project Tracking & Monitoring
•Mentoring Customer’s Engineering Team

6. Pre-requisites
High Speed Board Design
ARM SoC Based Architecture Design
Hardware Partitioning Skills
Performing & Debugging Pre-Scan Tests
Hardware Certifications
Synchronization With SW & Mech Team
Debugging Skills
Multiple Board System Design

7. Tools
Activity
Required Tools
Placement Feasibility Study
MS Visio
Power Calculations
MS Excel
Documentation
MS Word
Project Planning
MS Project / MS Excel
Schematic Entry
Cadence ORCAD Capture
Layout Design
Allegro
Signal Integrity (SI) Analysis
Allegro
Board Testing
Digital Multimeter
Oscilloscope
Soldering Station
Texas Instruments’ Emulator
Mechanical 3D model
Solid Works

8. Customer Benefits
Quality Improvement
Project Accelerated
Reduction in Cost
Coordination Improved between Cross Functional Teams

9. THANK YOU
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Gujarat, India
www.teqdiligent.com
sales@teqdiligent.com
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