Optimizing Motors, Drivers and Cost in a High Volume Manufacturing Environment

摘要

It takes a sophisticated approach and a special kind of company to handle the extraordinary design tasks, continual innovation and the very high success rate the fast-paced hard drive market demands. Full custom LSI chip designs are employed using technology found only in this industry, dictating long design cycles because cost is paramount. How does a company reconcile custom LSI design with extremely short HDD product design cycles? It starts with organization. A special type of organization consisting of functional engineering groups with specialized skills is used.