Posted Mar 8, 2010, by Ralph Zak
In an earlier blog I talked about the value of emulation in terms of providing direct project cost and schedule reductions that generally dwarf the actual costs of emulation systems. I have been asked by some to provide a “prequel” discussion, with a higher level description of the SoC verification problem and how emulation systems address verification challenges.
Rather than trying to cover the … Read More
Tags:
SoC Verification,
Emulation,
FPGA Boards,
ASIC Emulation,
SoC Emulation,
SoC Simulation,
FPGA Systems,
Simulation Acceleration
Posted Oct 7, 2009, by Ralph Zak
Transaction-Based Verification is a technique for verifying modern SoC designs with interfaces such as PCI express, using test benches at the transaction level of abstraction. Transaction-based verification complements directed and constrained random tests, and is an emerging methodology for verifying complex SoCs that have multiple on-chip standard bus and peripheral interfaces. Typically in a transaction-based … Read More
Tags:
TBV,
System on Chip,
Transaction-Based Verification,
Emulation,
FPGA Prototyping,
ASIC Emulation,
SoC,
SoC Verification,
Simulation Server Farms
Posted Aug 14, 2009, by Ralph Zak
In my last blog I stated I was an evangelist for using emulation to verify SoC designs. I defined Emulation Systems as verification systems which provide (1) Vector and transaction-based simulation acceleration and (2) in-circuit emulation (ICE) capability to perform system integration and test using real world data before silicon is available. Emulation systems are typically built on custom emulation … Read More
Tags:
Emulation,
Functional Verification,
FPGA Prototyping,
System Verilog,
VMM,
OVM,
SoC Verification
