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zerohptoday at 2:52 AM0 repliesview on HN

In the chip design world, 2:1 for design verification to design is on the low end of normal.

Some organizations have gone as low as 1:1 but that is considered an emergency that must be fixed. It’s so important that designers will be intentionally underworked if there are not enough validation engineers on staff.

When you can’t fix bugs in the field, quality is important.