학술논문

Re-use-centric architecture for a fully accelerated testbench environment
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings 2003. Design Automation Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37451) Design automation conference Design Automation Conference, 2003. Proceedings. :372-375 2003
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Life estimation
Hardware
Protocols
Usability
Automatic testing
Acceleration
Control system synthesis
Debugging
Emulation
Software testing
Language
Abstract
This paper presents a new technology that accelerates functional system verification. Starting with a behavioral testbench, we developed a seamless flow to generate a re-use-oriented architecture for a synthesizable testbench without losing compatibility with the original testbench. Consequently, we combine the flexibility of a behavioral testbench and the simulation performance of a synthesizable testbench, while greatly reducing the modeling overhead. The approach itself is hardware independent. To prove the usability of our approach, we verified a hard disc controller on an emulator. With this setup, we achieved a speed-up factor of 5000 versus plain simulation.