Engineering Tradeoffs — question 9 of 10
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Partway through a project you learn that a key ADC on your board is being discontinued in six months. You have a working prototype and a demo in one month. Your three options are: (1) do a last-time buy of enough parts to cover two years of expected production, (2) redesign around a substitute part now, which delays your schedule by three weeks, or (3) do nothing yet and deal with it when supply actually runs out. Walk me through how you'd decide, including what data you'd want and how the one-month demo factors into it.