Performing design for environment concurrent with interdisciplinarytradeoff analysis of electronic systems

摘要

As the world becomes more sensitive to environmental issues andsystems become more complex, the risk of ignoring the environmentalimpact of a product or process will become intolerable. Unfortunately,design for environment (DFE) activities will be of limited value unlessthe impact of DFE decisions and other system economic and performancemeasures (i.e., cost, electrical and thermal performance, reliability,size, etc.) can be concurrently assessed by system designers. This paperpresents the preliminary results of embedding energy/mass balance intoan existing software tool that performs automated tradeoff analysis forelectronic systems. Example results that demonstrate the necessity ofconcurrent DFE, cost, and performance analysis are presented