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Legacy Code Documentation

Do you have undocumented "legacy" code? How do you find out what your code does?

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Embedded and IT

What does embedded mean anyway? What is the difference to "normal" IT?

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Data Flow Diagrams: The Forgotten Art

A plea for more clarity for complex systems.

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Anti-Aliasing! Do I need a Filter?

Does I need an anti-aliasing filter? Or is this easier done in software?

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What is the Benefit of Code Generation?

How to reduce effort while increasing quality using code generation...

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Flicker: What You Aalways Wanted to Know

Where does flicker come from? How can you influence flicker?

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How to Measure Flicker without Hardware?

Our open source flicker simulator: measure flicker of any voltage waveform.

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Develop Software without Hardware?

How can the hardware and the machinery to control be replaced by simulation?

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How to Contact on a Very Confined Space?

Contacting for development without building a printed circuit board adapter.

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Medical Devices and Functional Safety

What do you need to do to develop medical devices?

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FuSa: How do I Start?

What steps should precede a functionally safe development?

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FuSa: What does that Mean Legally?

Answers on liability and other legal topics related to functional safety.

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Reviews! Is that necessary?

Pitfalls of reviews and how to solve them.

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UL 1998 vs. UL/EN 60730

UL 1998 is short and seems simple. If I have a choice, can I really save anything?

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What Functional Safety is Not

Does an FMEA make the product safe? This and other misconceptions dispelled

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High Software Quality Required - What Now?

Are tests enough to ensure the quality of my software? Or is there something more...

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Sistema for Embedded FuSa?

Sistema as a guide to ISO 13849...

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Secure by Design? For Embedded?

What does Secure by Design mean for embedded systems? Why does this matter to me?

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Secure Boot! For Microcontrollers?

Do you need that? And then how is it done?

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5 Tips for a Successful FMEDA

How to perform an efficient and effective FMEDA or quantitative FMEA?

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A Meaningful Software FMEA?

How to perform a software safety analysis that makes sense?

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What is the Cost of Functional Safety?

How to estimate the effort for safety-critical systems: a simple rule of thumb

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Functional Safety? The list

What does functional safety mean for your development? A short list.

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Functional Safety? The Details

What to do for safety development? The details.

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Digitalization: a Route

Do you want to digitalize your products? Bring them into the Internet of Things? Find a way here.

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Your Product on the Web? Iterative Implementation

Do you have an idea for an IoT product? How can it be implemented efficiently and with low risk?

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Is System Design Worthwhile?

Will your project be faster with System Engineering? There is evidence for this!

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Risk Management? A guide

Do you want to set up a simple risk management for your project? Use our template.

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Outsourcing Checklist

You would like to outsource development or consulting?
How to pick the optimum partner.

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Effort Estimation

You want to know what the effort is? Use our estimation tools!

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Project Estimation: : divide et impera

Do you want to estimate your projects more accurately? Here is a method that works!

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Coarse Estimation: if you Know "Nothing"

You only have a rough product description? This is how to generate an effort estimate with it!

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Experiments and Useful Results?

A big pile of plots... How can experiments be made more usable?

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Planning Poker for the Estimation of Hours

The instructions for Planning Poker and a deck of cards to estimate hours.

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Lean: Just Reduction of Muda?

Lean Management is often synonymous with the reduction of waste (Muda). Is that enough?

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Functional Safety: And the Processes?

A discussion of the possible options on how to obtain the necessary processes.

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"It works!" Is the product finished?

Or is it? What about the non-functional requirements?

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Expertise: the Dreyfus Model

How to classify the expertise of technical specialists? A useful model.

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40% Faster Innovation and Product Development

This is the wish of everybody involved with product development...

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Is Body Leasing Really Simpler?

Is it more efficient to have the engineers on place or to award the task as a project?

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What defines a Good Engineer?

Apart from technical knowledge, what are the key success factors of an engineer?

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Anniversaries 2024

80 years of expertise
Six anniversaries: 10, 15 and 20 years at Solcept.

ESE 2024: Innovation Assessment

«Wie bewerte und verkaufe ich meine Innovationsidee?»

ESE 2023: Security by Design & Open Space

"Embedded Security by Design" & "Barcamp with Solution Potential: Open Space"

20 Years of Solcept

We celebrated our 20th anniversary on the Pilatus...

Shukokai Karate Wetzikon Sponsor

Solcept sponsors training apparel for the Kimura Shukokai Dojo Wetzikon.

ESE 2022: Processes without "Process Police"

"Wie viel Demokratie vertragen Prozesse? Prozesse ohne "Prozesspolizei" am Leben und lebbar halten"

ECC 2022: Software Safety Analysis

"Software Safety Analysis for Practitioners"

ESE 2021: Intent Based Leadership

"Von roter und blauer Arbeit: Sechs Pattern für Führung in dieser Zeit".

ESE 2020: The Solcept Way

"The Solcept Way: Von Ingenieuren für Ingenieure"

ESE 2019: Safety & Psychology

"Menschliche Aspekte von Safety-Projekten: Was Sie in der FuSi-Schulung nicht hören"

Anniversaries 2019

65 years of expertise:
Six  10th and 15th work anniversaries.

Safety & Security 2018: Experiences FuSa

"Vom funktionierenden zum sicheren Produkt: ein Erfahrungsbericht zur Einführung von funktionaler Sicherheit"

ECC 2018: Processes, just Tedious?

"Wieso Prozesse: ist das nicht einfach nur mühsam?"

ESE 2017: Effort Estimation

"Aufwandsschätzung: Handwerk oder Magie?"

ECC 2017

"Funktionale Sicherheit: Wie macht man das?"

Ready to Start with Automotive Safety!

Capable engineers and institutionalized processes: ISO 26262 quickly achieved

News from May

New website, now fully responsive. New staff and again capacity for your projects.

News 2003..2015

The very old news...