Aug 21
Abstract
Systems engineering is not a quiet backwater. It is an arena of political and economic
realignment and foment. And like any revolution in-progress it is the harbinger of great
and unpredictable change bringing with it huge opportunities hand-in-hand with equally
impressive threats. Nothing less than corporate power and bureaucratic structure are
being reordered by the new realities of engineering systems on silicon. The 30 years of
hardware dominance in silicon electronic engineering is being torn apart by the
recognition that the complexity of modern systems is determined by its multifunctionality,
adaptability and flexibility – attributes that, in an economic sense, are best realized in
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