Engineering Tradeoffs — question 1 of 10
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This is about converting a vague requirement into something you can actually design and test against, which is the first thing an intern has to do on almost any hardware task.
Your manager tells you: 'The new sensor board needs to run for a long time on a coin cell.' Before you can pick a battery chemistry or design the power tree, what specific numbers do you need to pin down, and how would you go about getting them?