??? 08/21/06 19:10 Read: times |
#122729 - and even then ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Testing is what one does with a new circuit once he is absolutely certain it functions as desired and this is achieved by DESIGN, not by "let us see if it will work".
And even then this fact still stand: "succesful testing does not prove the abscence of bugs, it only proves the abscence of known bugs" This means over a range of temperature, voltage, and randomized system noise and, seemingly, for Atmel programming" "exposed to a variety of PC printer ports". I can not visulaize any form of 'testing' that can catch a DESIGN glitch such as one that will only raise its ugly head if interrupt #2 happen exactly 3-7ns after interrupt #1 went active while the code executed at line 555 in module 7. Far fetched? no, I have seen such. Erik |