Automatic verification methodology based on structural test patterns
Christelle Hobeika, Claude Thibeault, Jean François Boland · 2009
Functional verification is a major bottleneck in today's design flow. Current technologies are not meeting the challenges imposed by design complexity. In this paper, we propose a new simulation-based verification methodology based on the use of automatically generated structural test patterns in the RTL simulation. The presented approach generally improves the simulation-based verification's quality, keeping the integration, the applicability and the automation aspects in close proximity.