But, also, there is the real world Consider power consumption Your power supply must provide enough current Your tracks and cables must be big enough Are you battery-driven? Hmm... interesting.... Consider heath Your components get hot Your power supply gets hot 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