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Many aspects in the design flow of modern digital hardware design can be viewed as a special kind of software development. From that viewpoint, it is a natural question whether advances in software design techniques can not also be applied to hardware design.
One software design approach that gets a lot of attention recently is Extreme Programming (XP). It is a fascinating set of techniques and guidelines that often seems to go against the conventional wisdom. On other occasions, XP just seems to emphasize the common sense, which doesn't always coincide with common practice. For example, XP stresses the importance of normal workweeks, if we are to have the fresh mind needed for good software development.
It is not my intention nor qualification to present a tutorial on Extreme Programming. Instead, in this section I will highlight one XP concept which I think is very relevant to hardware design: the importance and methodology of unit testing.
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