Improving functional verification of embedded systems using hierarchical composition and set theory

  • Authors:
  • Cássio L. Rodrigues;Karina R. G. da Silva;Henrique N. Cunha

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Campina Grande, Grande - PB, Brazil;Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia - GO, Brazil;Federal University of Campina Grande, Grande - PB, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

During functional verification, complex interactions between multiple modules that compose a digital circuit design can reveal hard-to-find bugs. Functional coverage specifications must be precise to assure these interactions occur during the simulation. We are proposing a technique for improving the functional verification specification of individual modules, preserving the occurrence of these interactions scenarios in the composition phase. We obtain these new specifications in a deductive way, by means of set theory. Using experimental results, we show how our work can contribute to error detection and save functional verification time.