Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (한국정보통신학회논문지)

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Coverage metrics for high-level events in behavioral model verification

동작적 모델 검증의 상위 레벨 사건에 대한 검출률 측정법

  • 김강철 (전남대학교 공학대학 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 임창균 (전남대학교 공학대학 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 류재흥 (전남대학교 공학대학 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 한석붕 (경상대학교 공과대학 전자공학과)
  • Published : 2006.03.01
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Abstract

The complexity of IC has rapidly increased as VLSI fabrication technology has grown up quickly. This paper proposes verification methods for data conflicts and protocol between IPs for SoC with coverage metrics. The high-level events is defined to cooperation between blocks or process statement in HDL, or a sequence of performing a job compared to low-level event. They are classified into two categories, resource conflicts and protocol or specification-dependent conflicts. And two coverage metrics used for code coverage in low-level event are proposed to verify the hish-level events. The events of resource conflicts can be detected by using statement coverage metric if global signal or variable has flags in a testbench program, and protocol-dependent events can be checked by data flow metric or path metric.

최근에 CAD 툴의 비약적인 발전으로 인하여 대부분의 디지털 회로들은 VHDL 언어를 사용하여 설계된다. 그리고 IC 공정기술의 발달에 따라 하나의 칩에 많은 회로를 포함할 수 있으므로 VHDL 코드의 크기가 방대해져 이에 대한 검증(verification)은 칩 설계에 있어서 어렵고, 많은 시간을 소모하는 과정이 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 SoC용 IP 사이에서 발생할 수 있는 자원충돌과 프로토콜의 오류를 검증하는 새로운 방법을 제시한다. VHDL 모델의 블록 또는 SoC용 IP 사이에서 발생할 수 있는 상위레벨 고장을 정의하고 분류하고, 하위 레벨 검증(low-level code verification)에 사용되는 검출률 측정 법을 사용하여 IP사이에서 발생하는 데이터 충돌과 프로토콜 또는 알고리즘의 오류를 검증하는 방법을 제안한다.

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