Publication detail

Using Control Logic Drivers for Automated Generation of System-level Portable Models

BARDONEK, P. ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.

Original Title

Using Control Logic Drivers for Automated Generation of System-level Portable Models

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Portable Test and Stimulus Standard is a new Accellera standard for an abstract definition of the verification intent that can be used for stimuli generation for different types of verification environments and at different levels of design hierarchy. Despite the idea behind the standard is clear and well received by the general public, there is still a lot of work to make the magic happen inside of the interpretation tools. In this paper, we focus on vertical reuse of portable models which is basically about adapting portable models for block-level designs to portable models defined at the subsystem or system-level. This adaptation is usually based on manually defined (sub)system-level control restrictions and resources sharing restrictions. Our goal is to define algorithms which do transformations of portable models so as the restrictions are automatically added or suggestions for the user are made. In our first experiments, we focus on building control restrictions based on the control logic drivers extracted from the subsystem-level design.  We present our first results on the floating-point unit and RISC-V processor-based subsystem as they fit to represents the vertical reuse in a clear manner.

Keywords

PSS, portable stimuli, portable models, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)

Authors

BARDONEK, P.; ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.

Released

1. 4. 2020

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Location

Novi Sad

ISBN

978-1-7281-9938-2

Book

23rd International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2020

Pages from

1

Pages to

4

Pages count

4

URL

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT168123,
  author="Petr {Bardonek} and Marcela {Zachariášová}",
  title="Using Control Logic Drivers for Automated Generation of System-level Portable Models",
  booktitle="23rd International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2020",
  year="2020",
  pages="1--4",
  publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
  address="Novi Sad",
  doi="10.1109/DDECS50862.2020.9095708",
  isbn="978-1-7281-9938-2",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12195/"
}