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Block Diagrams
Block diagrams are important to display information in a visual way to an audience. Block diagrams have the potential to display more information in a more condensed form that just text alone.
Depending on what you're trying to describe the specific elements can be different but here are some points you should follow:
- Figure out what information you want to convey to the audience
- Are you describing the overall system?
- Are you describing an algorithm?
- Are you describing a workflow?
- You may need multiple block diagrams in your presentation, or you might need less.
- Make sure you outline relationships well
- For hardware - how are the hardware components interconnected?
- For software - you might be describing how your program logically flows from one state to another
- Include enough text to give your audience context
- Label communication types or voltage/current measurements
- Make sure that you're representing things correctly
- Is there a chance for misintrepretation?
- Get comments/feedback early and revise
Here are a few tools you can use:
- Word
- Google Draw
- Powerpoint
- Google Presentations
- Draw.io