Abstract
A much publicised ‘rule of thumb’ is that errors which are transferred from one design phase to the next increase detection costs by a factor of 10. Thus a fault at the initial design phase may have cost £500 to detect, but let this reach, say, the gate array and it will cost £5,000, the printed circuit board and it will cost £50,000, and so on. Recognition of this fact, together with increasing complexity of designs, has resulted in a generation of stochastic architectural simulation tools. Typically these are used by system designers who are provided with precise analytical data enabling them to make design decisions based upon fact rather than intuition. The ever increasing demand of quality and time to market pressures will, the author anticipates, increase the interest in the availability of such products.
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