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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" }