Towards fully automated TLM-to-RTL property refinement
Vladimir Herdt, Hoang M. Le, Daniel Grose, Rolf Drechsler · 2018
An ESL design flow starts with a TLM description, which is thoroughly verified and then refined to a RTL description in subsequent steps. The properties used for TLM verification are refined alongside the TLM description to serve as starting point for RTL property checking. However, a manual transformation of properties from TLM to RTL is error prone and time consuming. Therefore, in this paper we propose a fully automated TLM-to-RTL property refinement based on a symbolic analysis of transactors. We demonstrate the applicability of our property refinement approach using a case study.