Genesys-Pro: Innovations in Test Program Generation for Functional Processor Verification

Authors:
Allon Adir;Eli Almog;Laurent Fournier;Eitan Marcus;Michal Rimon;Michael Vinov;Avi Ziv
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEEE Design & Test
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Historically, IBM's random test-program generation (RTPG) methodology has tightly coupled architectural information with the TPG tool. Model-based TPG removes this architecture dependency and provides a generic solution to functional testbench generation. Genesys-Pro, the second-generation model-based TPG tool, has many improvements over its predecessor, Genesys, including greater expressive power in the test template language and more constraint-solving processing power.