Re: Detailed article about Mars Rover falure in EE Times

From: Scott Moore (samiam_at_moorecad.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:27:31 GMT

"Rene" <spam@see5.ch> wrote in message news:c1j0oh$hrk$1@rex.ip-plus.net...
> "Michael N. Moran" <mnmoran@bellsouth.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3dR_b.25369$Ve2.1576@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> > Scott Moore wrote:
> > > "Steve at fivetrees" <steve@NOSPAMTAfivetrees.com> wrote in message
> news:403b1c37$0$61968$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net...
> > [...snip...]
> [more snips]
> > > 2. Hardware is fully verified. Chip designs are not considered done
> until all
> > > sections have been excersized and automatically verified. Tools exist
> for hardware
> > > to discover sections that have not been excersized by the tests, and
> more tests
> > > are added until "%100 test coverage" is acheived.
>
>
> Haha, I would have laughed if it were funny. Hardware 100% verified... Have
> you
> ever come close to a PowerPC CPU, AMD Ethernet Chip (Lance), Infineon
> DuSLIC,
> Motorola MPC 180 Crypto Chip and so on ?

Didn't say %100 verified. Said %100 coverage. There is a difference.

>
> I am a doing low level software and some hardware design. I have stopped
> counting
> the hardware bugs in components we used. The lesson was that we now evaluate
> parts
> by their errate sheet.
>
> - Rene
>
>

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