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Products: The DV Notebook Series
Maintaining an efficient workplace has always been important, so use the best tools available
to make this happen. The DV Notebook series is designed especially for engineers, technical leaders, and engineering managers.
Keep large amounts of information in an organized, manageable form
Visualize and present your data more effectively
Share your data with others more easily
Build up historical data to maintain perspective
Click the benefits chart to see how the DV Notebook addresses these problems...
Manage
High tech teams need to divide and conquer the complexity of a project.
Team members dive deeply into each section and rely on managers and architects to track the big picture.
Companies rely on costly status meetings and management hierarchy to maintain communication and direction.
DV Notebook makes it easy to publish self-updating status and planning pages for each engineer.
Captured data provides an executive summary of each team member's work.
Managers and architects can stay informed and react quickly as needs arise.
Classify
Low-cost, high-performance computers can run thousands of programs each day.
Engineers are faced with the problem of sifting through Gigabytes of output.
The information captured by the DV Notebook creates an ideal starting point for results triage.
The tools provide sorted and filtered displays of the data that engineers need to identify problems.
Hundreds of error messages can be boiled down to a handful of unique errors.
Recycle
In the life of a product, important ideas reappear in many forms.
Companies waste time and money recreating these ideas in different teams and in different product phases.
The DV Notebook allows teams to recycle data by writing translation scripts.
Captured marketing requirements can be translated into test cases. Captured lab tests can be translated into unit tests.
Captured error messages can be translated into bug-specific test lists.
For the first time, all phases of a project can be linked together into a single information flow.
Capture
Every day, engineering teams spend time and money creating report files and logs.
Most of these valuable files are deleted or over-written within days. Some of them are never looked at.
The DV Notebook stops this waste. It automatically reads result files and stores a summary of each file's key data.
Captured results are compact and historical data can be kept for the entire life of the project.
Advance
There are many sources of problems in a design.
Architectural bugs limit the potential of a system.
Design bugs cause errors in specific cases.
Synthesis, timing, and physical design challenges emerge in later phases.
Fixing one problem often causes another.
DV Notebook provides the framework for definitive problem closure.
All of the information needed to re-create a problem is captured and stored.
Design changes can be rigorously tested against all known problems to insure constant forward progress.
Connect
Hardware teams employ many tools and methods.
Bug tracking tools capture lists of known problems.
Source control tools are used to provide a history of file versions.
Scripts, programs, and text files describe test cases and test lists.
Scratch disks are used to hold large logs and report files.
Engineers must bridge these data formats by hand using white-boards, spreadsheets, meetings, and spiral notebooks.
The DV Notebook is the perfect complement to existing tools and methods.
Captured data from different sources can be combined and referenced in new ways.
Conclusions can be made from old data.
Improve
Developing hardware is risky. Each phase of the project must reduce risk for the next phase.
Mistakes are costly. Any weakness must be identified and fixed before handing off the project to the next phase.
In spite of this, the intense pressures facing design teams often lead to compromises near the end of a phase.
Using DV Notebook to enable
Six Sigma or
Lean Engineering strategies
can reverse this trend. Capturing and visualizing workflow data allows the value of each activity to be measured.
Engineering teams can intensify activities that add value and eliminate activities that do not.
Managers can eliminate waste, reduce risk, and have confidence in handing a project off to the next phase.
