Functional verification is widely acknowledged as a major bottleneck in microprocessor design. While early work on specification driven functional test program generation has prop...
Functional verification of microprocessors is one of the most complex and expensive tasks in the current system-on-chip design process. A significant bottleneck in the validatio...
Functional validation is a major bottleneck in microprocessor design methodology. Simulation is the widely used method for functional validation using billions of random and biase...
Functional validation of a processor design through execution of a suite of test programs is common industrial practice. In this paper, we develop a high-level architectural speci...
Thanh Nga Dang, Abhik Roychoudhury, Tulika Mitra, ...
Functional validation is a major bottleneck in pipelined processor design. Simulation using functional test vectors is the most widely used form of processor validation. While exi...