Cost-Efficient Block Verification for a UMTS Up-Link Chip-Rate Coprocessor

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Winkelmann;Hans-Joachim Trylus;Dominik Stoffel;Görschwin Fey

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

ASIC designs for future communication applications cannot be simulated exhaustively. Formal Property Checking is a powerful technology to overcome the limitations of current functional verification approaches. The paper reports on a large-scale experiment employingthe CVE property checker for verifying the block-level functional correctness of a large ASIC.This new verification methodology achieves substantial quality and productivity gains. The two biggest advantages are:Coding and Verification can be done in parallel.The whole state space of a test case will be verifiedin a single run.Formal Property Checking simplifies and shortens the functional verification of large-scale ASICs at least in the same order of magnitude as Static Timing Analysis did for timing verification.