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This book addresses a means of quantitatively assessing functional verification progress. Without this process, design and verification engineers, and management, are left guessing whether or not they have completed verifying the device they are designing.

Computer aided design. --- Computer engineering. --- Engineering. --- Integrated circuits. --- Systems engineering. --- Integrated circuits --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical Engineering --- Verification --- Hardware verification --- Integrated circuit verification --- Verification of hardware --- Verification of integrated circuits --- Verification.

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Hardware/software co-verification is how to make sure that embedded system software works correctly with the hardware, and that the hardware has been properly designed to run the software successfully -before large sums are spent on prototypes or manufacturing. This is the first book to apply this verification technique to the rapidly growing field of embedded systems-on-a-chip(SoC). As traditional embedded system design evolves into single-chip design, embedded engineers must be armed with the necessary information to make educated decisions about which tools and methodology to deploy

Integrated circuits --- Computer software --- Systems on a chip. --- Verification. --- Software verification --- Verification of software --- Hardware verification --- Integrated circuit verification --- Verification of hardware --- Verification of integrated circuits --- SOC design --- Systems on chip --- Embedded computer systems

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"As chip size and complexity continues to grow exponentially, the challenges of functional verification are becoming a critical issue in the electronics industry. It is now commonly heard that logical errors missed during functional verification are the most common cause of chip re-spins, and that the costs associated with functional verification are now outweighing the costs of chip design. To cope with these challenges engineers are increasingly relying on new design and verification methodologies and languages. Transaction-based design and verification, constrained random stimulus generation, functional coverage analysis, and assertion-based verification are all techniques that advanced design and verification teams routinely use today. Engineers are also increasingly turning to design and verification models based on C/C++ and SystemC in order to build more abstract, higher performance hardware and software models and to escape the limitations of RTL HDLs. This new book, Advanced Verification Techniques, provides specific guidance for these advanced verification techniques. The book includes realistic examples and shows how SystemC and SCV can be applied to a variety of advanced design and verification tasks." - Stuart Swan.

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Exponentially increasing design complexity has necessitated the adoption of metric driven planning and project management. Metric Driven Design Verification provides the semiconductor industry’s first metric driven based approach to functional verification. A metric based flow is described that focuses on the four steps of: 1. Planning: Defining what needs to be done and the automatically trackable metrics that will be used to measure progress. 2. Execution: Implementing verification environments and then extensively exercising the device under verification utilizing comprehensive, massively parallel regression strategies. 3. Measurement: Automatically capturing the metrics defined in planning to provide objective data with which to manage the verification project. Custom tailoring those metrics through an automated reporting framework to provide all stakeholders a real-time meaningful view of project status. 4. Response: Utilizing the returned metrics to effectively adapt to changing project conditions. Making use of automated response mechanisms to automate engineering processed and management response to streamline project management processes. The primary audience for this book is professional engineers, managers, and executives. It is written in an easily understandable style and consists of four parts. The first three parts are tailored for executives, engineering managers, and engineers respectively. The fourth part presents case studies and commentaries from industry luminaries and experts on metric driven verification. Metric Driven Design Verification brings together the best practices and real-life experiences of several leading electronic companies worldwide in planning and managing verification projects, while automating critical processes. It addresses all aspects of verification and summarizes the different options available to engineers, managers and executives.

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Assertion-based IP is much more than a comprehensive set of related assertions. It is a full-fledged reusable and configurable transaction-level verification component, which is used to detect both interesting and incorrect behaviors. Upon detecting interesting or incorrect behavior, the assertion-based IP alerts other verification components within a simulation environment, which are responsible for taking appropriate action. The focus of this book is to bring the assertion discussion up to a higher level and introduce a process for creating effective, reusable, assertion-based IP, which easily integrates with the user’s existing verification environment, in other words the testbench infrastructure. The guiding principles promoted in this book when creating an assertion-based IP monitor are: modularity—assertion-based IP should have a clear separation between detection and action clarity—assertion-based IP should be written initially focusing on capturing intent (versus optimizations) A unique feature of this book is the fully worked out, detailed examples. The concepts presented in the book are drawn from the authors’ experience developing assertion-based IP, as well as general assertion-based techniques. Creating Assertion-Based IP is an important resource for design and verification engineers. From the Foreword: Creating Assertion-Based IP "…reduces to process the creation of one of the most valuable kinds of VIP: assertion-based VIP…This book will serve as a valuable reference for years to come." Andrew Piziali, Sr. Design Verification Engineer Co-Author, ESL Design and Verification: A Prescription for Electronic System Level Methodology Author, Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis.

Integrated circuits --- Electrical engineering. --- Verification. --- Electric engineering --- Hardware verification --- Integrated circuit verification --- Verification of hardware --- Verification of integrated circuits --- Engineering. --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Electronic circuits. --- Circuits and Systems. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Engineering --- Systems engineering. --- Computer aided design. --- Computer engineering. --- Computers --- Engineering systems --- System engineering --- Industrial engineering --- System analysis --- CAD (Computer-aided design) --- Computer-assisted design --- Computer-aided engineering --- Design --- Design and construction --- CAE --- Electron-tube circuits --- Electric circuits --- Electron tubes --- Electronics --- Data processing