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Hardware Emulation for Lowing Production Testing Costs-December 21, 2010 |
The sooner you catch a fault, the cheaper it will be, or so the user surveys tell us. These surveys, conducted by various data gathering services, are meant to determine the cost of pinpointing design faults during the creation of chips. Each one proves conclusively that costs increase by a factor of 10 at each step in the development cycle.
It’s hard to find a better example than the infamous Pentium bug dating back to 1994. The cost to fix the bug that found its way inside thousands of PCs was more than a billion dollars because the design fault made its way into a manufactured product. Talk about breaking the budget and tarnishing a stellar technical reputation!