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alb
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Hi everyone,
I've recently had to argue why it is not 'sane' to budget 500 hours of
development against 200 of verification.
If you ask the FPGA developer he'd say a factor of 2/3 has to be
considered for verification w.r.t. design (that I tend to agree to).
I'd like to give some grounds to those estimates and I asked the fpga
group leader to compare among several completed projects what is this
ratio. We are usually collecting lots of data on the amount and type of
work we do every day and this data can be used to verify the
verification effort w.r.t. the design effort.
His counter argument is that it is difficult to compare projects
due to their peculiarity, implying that there's very little that we can
learn from the past (that I obviously do not buy!).
As of your knowledge is there any source of - trusted - data that I
can point at? Is there really a ratio that can be 'generally' applied?
Any comment/opinion/pointer is appreciated.
Al
p.s.: this thread is intentially crossposted to comp.lang.vhdl and
comp.arch.fpga. Please use the followup-to field in order to avoid
breaking the thread.
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I've recently had to argue why it is not 'sane' to budget 500 hours of
development against 200 of verification.
If you ask the FPGA developer he'd say a factor of 2/3 has to be
considered for verification w.r.t. design (that I tend to agree to).
I'd like to give some grounds to those estimates and I asked the fpga
group leader to compare among several completed projects what is this
ratio. We are usually collecting lots of data on the amount and type of
work we do every day and this data can be used to verify the
verification effort w.r.t. the design effort.
His counter argument is that it is difficult to compare projects
due to their peculiarity, implying that there's very little that we can
learn from the past (that I obviously do not buy!).
As of your knowledge is there any source of - trusted - data that I
can point at? Is there really a ratio that can be 'generally' applied?
Any comment/opinion/pointer is appreciated.
Al
p.s.: this thread is intentially crossposted to comp.lang.vhdl and
comp.arch.fpga. Please use the followup-to field in order to avoid
breaking the thread.
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?