Simulation-based validation of the current industrial processors typically use huge number of test programs generated at instruction set architecture (ISA) level. However, archite...
In current microprocessors and systems, an increasingly high silicon portion is derived through automatic synthesis, with designers working exclusively at the RT-level, and design...
Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squill...
Parallelism in processor architecture and design imposes a verification challenge as the exponential growth in the number of execution combinations becomes unwieldy. In this paper...
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...