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Automated Functional Verification of Application Specific Instruction-set Processors
Přikryl Zdeněk, Ing., Ph.D.
Hruška Tomáš, prof. Ing., CSc. (DIFS)
Kotásek Zdeněk, doc. Ing., CSc.
Functional Verification OVM Application Specific Instruction-set Processors EDA
Tools
Today's highly competitive market of consumer electronics is very sensitive to
the time it takes to introduce a new product. However, the ever-growing
complexity of application specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) which are
inseparable parts of nowadays complex embedded systems makes this task even more
challenging as it is necessary to test and verify significantly bigger portion of
logic, tricky timing behaviour or specific corner cases in a defined time
schedule. As a consequence, the gap between the proposed verification plan and
quality of verification tasks is widening due to this time restriction. One way
how to solve this issue is using faster, efficient and cost-effective methods of
verification. The aim of this paper is to introduce an automated generation of
SystemVerilog verification environments (testbenches) for verification of ASIPs.
Results show that our approach reduces the time and effort needed for
implementation of testbenches significantly and furthermore, it improves the
quality of verification itself.
@article{BUT103464,
author="Marcela {Zachariášová} and Zdeněk {Přikryl} and Tomáš {Hruška} and Zdeněk {Kotásek}",
title="Automated Functional Verification of Application Specific Instruction-set Processors",
journal="IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
year="2013",
volume="4",
number="403",
pages="128--138",
doi="10.1007/978-3-642-38853-8",
issn="1868-4238"
}