Publication detail

Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M. KOTÁSEK, Z.

Original Title

Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper proposes a new method for automation and optimization of coverage-driven verification (CDV) of hardware systems that is based on evolutionary computing. In comparison with the standard CDV that utilizes random search, using this method, the convergence to the maximum coverage is much faster, fewer input stimuli are used and no manual effort is required from the user. Moreover, the optimization is targeted to the verification process itself without the dependence on the circuit that is verified. For the demonstration purposes, the sequential arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) and the RISC processor were verified and the results show that using the optimization method, a significant improvement can be achieved.

Keywords

functional verification automation optimization genetic algorithm

Authors

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.; KOTÁSEK, Z.

RIV year

2015

Released

26. 8. 2015

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Funchal

ISBN

978-1-4673-8035-5

Book

Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design

Pages from

87

Pages to

94

Pages count

8

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT119894,
  author="Marcela {Zachariášová} and Zdeněk {Kotásek}",
  title="Automation and Optimization of Coverage-driven Verification",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design",
  year="2015",
  pages="87--94",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Funchal",
  doi="10.1109/DSD.2015.34",
  isbn="978-1-4673-8035-5"
}