Middle-out approaches concurrently combine the best aspects of traditional top-down and subsystem-level bottom up development methods. But is it enough?

Richard Feynman’s famous lecture notes and NASA help remind engineers of the importance of these most basic concepts.

Cars all have the same basic components that function in similar ways, but you wouldn't test-drive a sedan to make a buying decision on an SUV. The same rationale should apply to CAD workstation performance. Benchmarks that use generic CAD models and datasets to characterize workstation performance...