A comparison of three verification techniques: directed testing, pseudo-random testing and property checking

  • Authors:
  • Mike G. Bartley;Darren Galpin;Tim Blackmore

  • Affiliations:
  • Elixent Ltd, Castlemead;Infineon Technologies, UK Ltd Infineon House;Infineon Technologies, UK Ltd Infineon House

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes the verification of two versions of a bridge between two on-chip buses. The verification was performed just as the Infineon Technologies Design Centre in Bristol was introducing pseudo-random testing (using Specman) and property checking (using GateProp) into their verification flows and thus provides a good opportunity to compare these two techniques with the existing strategy of directed testing using VHDL bus functional models.