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DATE
2004
IEEE
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Cost-Efficient Block Verification for a UMTS Up-Link Chip-Rate Coprocessor
ASIC designs for future communication applications cannot be simulated exhaustively. Formal Property Checking is a powerful technology to overcome the limitations of current funct...
Klaus Winkelmann, Hans-Joachim Trylus, Dominik Sto...
DATE
2004
IEEE
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Graph-Based Functional Test Program Generation for Pipelined Processors
Functional verification is widely acknowledged as a major bottleneck in microprocessor design. While early work on specification driven functional test program generation has prop...
Prabhat Mishra, Nikil Dutt
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Functional Verification Methodology of Chameleon Processor
- Functional verification of the new generation microprocessor developed by SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics makes extensive use of advanced technologies. This paper presents a global ...
Françoise Casaubieilh, Anthony McIsaac, Mik...
DAC
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A C-Based RTL Design Verification Methodology for Complex Microprocessor
Cr, As the complexity of high-performance microprocessor increases, functional verification becomes more and more difficult and RTL simulation emerges as the bottleneck of the des...
Joon-Seo Yim, Yoon-Ho Hwang, Chang-Jae Park, Hoon ...
ISSS
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Design Experience of a Chip Multiprocessor Merlot and Expectation to Functional Verification
We have fabricated a Chip Multiprocessor prototype code-named Merlot to proof our novel speculative multithreading architecture. On Merlot, multiple threads provide wider issue wi...
Satoshi Matsushita
CODES
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing two testbench methods for hierarchical functional verification of a bluetooth baseband adaptor
The continuous improvement on the design methodologies and processes has made possible the creation of huge and very complex digital systems. Design verification is one of the mai...
Edgar L. Romero, Marius Strum, Wang Jiang Chau
VLSI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Impact of hardware emulation on the verification quality improvement
— Software simulation remains the most used method for VHDL RTL functional verification. The functional verification process essentially consists of two parts. The first one is t...
Youssef Serrestou, Vincent Beroulle, Chantal Robac...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Transistor abstraction for the functional verification of FPGAs
or Abstraction for the Functional Verification of FPGAs Guy Dupenloup, Thierry Lemeunier, Roland Mayr Altera Corporation 101 Innovation Drive San Jose, CA 95134 1-408-544-8672 {gdu...
Guy Dupenloup, Thierry Lemeunier, Roland Mayr