NDLI: Genesys-Pro: innovations in test program generation for functional processor verification

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Adir, A. Almog, E. Fournier, L. Marcus, E. Rimon, M. Vinov, M. Ziv, A.
Copyright Year	1984
Abstract	Functional verification is widely recognized as the bottleneck of the hardware design cycle. With the ever-growing demand for greater performance and faster time to market, coupled with the exponential growth in hardware size, verification has become increasingly difficult. Although formal methods such as model checking and theorem proving have resulted in noticeable progress, these approaches apply only to the verification of relatively small design blocks or to very focused verification goals. Current industry practice is to use separate, automatic, random stimuli generators for processor- and multiprocessor-level verification. The generated stimuli, usually in the form of test programs, trigger architecture and microarchitecture events defined by a verification plan. MAC-based algorithms are well suited for the test program generation domain because they postpone heuristic decisions until after consideration of all architectural and testing-knowledge constraints. Geneysys-Pro is currently the main test generation tool for functional verification of IBM processors, including several complex processors. We've found that the new language considerably reduces the effort needed to define and maintain knowledge specific to an implementation and verification plan.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	84
Ending Page	93
Page Count	10
File Size	366594
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07407475
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Computer Society
Publisher Date	2004-03-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Technological innovation Testing Engines Design engineering Knowledge engineering Microprocessors Computer languages Power generation Spine Power system modeling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software Hardware and Architecture

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