Research and implementation of an automatic simulation tool
Liu Tang, You Li, Hongwei Wang, Huan Zhao, Luze Ma, Yuming Sun · 2020
With the rapidly increasing of space missions, FPGA is more widely used for its ability of single chip approaching 10 million gates of logic and 10 million bits of memory. More and more challenges are posed to FPGA design and verification, with the characteristics of a tight schedule, a burdensome task, momentous responsibilities, etc. A reusable and robust environment for verification is needed to improve the efficiency and quality of verification. In this paper, we present a series of research works, including what kinds of simulation techniques should be used and which methodology should be addressed. By using the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) template, the verification modeling is done by us, and verification code is generated with FPGA automatic simulation tool (SunwiseFAS). The performance of this tool on automatic constructing simulation environment is presented, too.