Interactive presentation: Automatic generation of functional coverage models from behavioral verilog descriptions

  • Authors:
  • Shireesh Verma;Ian G. Harris;Kiran Ramineni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA;University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA;University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

As an industrial practice, the functional coverage models are developed based on a high-level specification of the Design Under Verification (DUV). However, in the course of implementation a designer makes specific choices which may not be reflected well in a functional coverage model developed entirely from a high-level specification. We present a method to automatically generate implementation-aware coverage models based on the static analysis of a HDL description of the DUV. Experimental results show that the functional coverage models generated using our technique correlate well with the detection of randomly injected errors into a design.