Are Functions Implemented with Digital Electronics to Avoid Fundamental Verifications?
Draft version 0.1: August 10, 2009. Please send me comments or additional information. Introduction The title to this white paper raises a most serious question: Do engineers implement functions in digital electronics to avoid fundamental verifications? If the answer to this is yes, then this is a most serious matter. I have heard and read this assertion from some members of the software community, over the past few years. My experience designing, reviewing, and analyzing electronics designs across a wide range of organizations — various NASA Centers and contractors performing work for either NASA and/or the Department of Defense — has not shown evidence supporting this thesis. Discussions with the members of the software community stating this assertion did not produce any such supporting evidence. In this white paper, I shall discuss what I have found out about this thesis, and the supporting material. To date, no significant support has been found for the notion that digital elect
