But, also, there is the real world Consider power consumption Your power supply must provide enough current Your tracks, connectors, external cables must be big enough Are you battery-driven? Hmm... interesting.... Consider heath Your components get hot and must dissipate Your power supply gets hot and must dissipate Consider mechanichs Coordinate with the mechanical engineer Try to ease maintainance, and component replacement Consider noise and interference Switching or linear supplies? Beware of capacitive coupling between signals Beware of high impedance critical signals With high currents, consider the ground return path