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Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.; KOTÁSEK, Z.

Original Title

Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification

English Title

Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract


This paper proposes a new method for automation
and optimization of coverage-driven verification (CDV) of
hardware systems that is based on evolutionary computing. In
comparison with the standard CDV that utilizes random search,
using this method, the convergence to the maximum coverage
is much faster, fewer input stimuli are used and no manual
effort is required from the user. Moreover, the optimization is
targeted to the verification process itself without the dependence
on the circuit that is verified. For the demonstration purposes, the
sequential arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) and the RISC processor
were verified and the results show that using the optimization
method, a significant improvement can be achieved.

English abstract


This paper proposes a new method for automation
and optimization of coverage-driven verification (CDV) of
hardware systems that is based on evolutionary computing. In
comparison with the standard CDV that utilizes random search,
using this method, the convergence to the maximum coverage
is much faster, fewer input stimuli are used and no manual
effort is required from the user. Moreover, the optimization is
targeted to the verification process itself without the dependence
on the circuit that is verified. For the demonstration purposes, the
sequential arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) and the RISC processor
were verified and the results show that using the optimization
method, a significant improvement can be achieved.

Keywords

functional verification
automation
optimization
genetic algorithm

Key words in English

functional verification
automation
optimization
genetic algorithm

Authors

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.; KOTÁSEK, Z.

RIV year

2016

Released

26.08.2015

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Funchal

ISBN

978-1-4673-8035-5

Book

Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design

Pages from

87

Pages to

94

Pages count

8

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT119894,
  author="Marcela {Zachariášová} and Zdeněk {Kotásek}",
  title="Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design",
  year="2015",
  pages="87--94",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Funchal",
  doi="10.1109/DSD.2015.34",
  isbn="978-1-4673-8035-5"
}