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HAVEN: An Open Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Functional Verification of Hardware

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M. LENGÁL, O. KAJAN, M.

Originální název

HAVEN: An Open Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Functional Verification of Hardware

Typ

článek v časopise - ostatní, Jost

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Functional verification is a widespread technique to check whether a hardware system satisfies a given correctness specification. As the complexity of modern hardware systems rises rapidly, it is a challenging task to find appropriate techniques for acceleration of this process. In this paper we present HAVEN, a freely available open functional verification framework that exploits the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology for cycle-accurate acceleration of simulation-based verification runs. HAVEN takes advantage of the inherent parallelism of hardware systems and moves the verified system together with transaction-based interface components of the functional verification environment from software into an FPGA. The presented framework is written in SystemVerilog and complies with the principles of functional verification methodologies (OVM, UVM), assertion-based verification, and also provides adequate debugging visibility, making its application range quite large. Our experiments confirm the assumption that the achieved acceleration is proportional to the complexity of the verified system.

Klíčová slova

functional verification, testbench, SystemVerilog, hardware acceleration, FPGA

Autoři

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.; LENGÁL, O.; KAJAN, M.

Rok RIV

2012

Vydáno

20. 4. 2012

Nakladatel

Springer Verlag

Místo

Berlin

ISSN

0302-9743

Periodikum

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Ročník

2012

Číslo

7261

Stát

Spolková republika Německo

Strany od

247

Strany do

253

Strany počet

7

BibTex

@article{BUT76422,
  author="Marcela {Zachariášová} and Ondřej {Lengál} and Michal {Kajan}",
  title="HAVEN: An Open Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Functional Verification of Hardware",
  journal="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  year="2012",
  volume="2012",
  number="7261",
  pages="247--253",
  issn="0302-9743"
}