1981, Sumney on VHSIC, DOD hopes during this part of Phase 1 to develop a sufficient number of integrated system brassboards.
1984, H. Steven Kimmel, Very High Speed Integrated Circuits for Army Systems, From the outset, the Army was interested in five of the six basic functional brassboards to be provided by the program.
1993, Norman B. Reilly, Successful Systems Engineering for Engineers and Managers Chapter Trade-off Analysis, Brassboards generally represent a more serious attempt to mimic the behavior of the final product, particularly in terms of component placing, connector lengths, and packaging. Portions of brassboards that involve high-risk areas may be constructed as near replicas of the envisioned final product and may be of sufficient integrity to undergo considerable testing.
