It's called functional verification. Some say it's 70% of a project. I think that number is exaggerated, but maybe 50% is more realistic. My previous startup (

It's called functional verification. Some say it's 70% of a project. I think that number is exaggerated, but maybe 50% is more realistic. My previous startup (http://eve-usa.com http://eve-usa.com) sells million-dollar boxes that are essentially debuggers, just like gdb is for software, but for chips. Very cool.