Evolutionary Test Program Induction for Microprocessor Design Verification

  • Authors:
  • Fulvio Corno;Gianluca Cumani;Matteo Sonza Reorda;Giovanni Squillero

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ATS '02 Proceedings of the 11th Asian Test Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Design verification is a crucial step in the design ofany electronic device. Particularly when microprocessorcores are considered, devising appropriate testcases may be a difficult task. This paper presents amethodology able to automatically induce a test programfor maximizing a given verification metric. Themethodology is based on an evolutionary paradigm andexploits a syntactical description of microprocessorassembly language and an RT-level functional model.Experimental results show the effectiveness of the approach.