Quality-Driven SystemC Design

A quality-driven design and verification flow for digital systems is developed and presented in Quality-Driven SystemC Design. Two major enhancements characterize the new flow: First, dedicated verification techniques are integrated which target the different levels of abstraction. Second, each verification technique is complemented by an approach to measure the achieved verification quality. The new flow distinguishes three levels of abstraction (namely system level, top level and block level) and can be incorporated in existing approaches. After reviewing the preliminary concepts, in the following chapters the three levels for modeling and verification are considered in detail. At each level the verification quality is measured. In summary, following the new design and verification flow a high overall quality results.

List of contents

Preliminaries.- System-Level Verification.- Block-Level Verification.- Top-Level Verification.- Summary and Conclusions.

Summary

A quality-driven design and verification flow for digital systems is developed and presented in Quality-Driven SystemC Design. Two major enhancements characterize the new flow: First, dedicated verification techniques are integrated which target the different levels of abstraction. Second, each verification technique is complemented by an approach to measure the achieved verification quality. The new flow distinguishes three levels of abstraction (namely system level, top level and block level) and can be incorporated in existing approaches. After reviewing the preliminary concepts, in the following chapters the three levels for modeling and verification are considered in detail. At each level the verification quality is measured. In summary, following the new design and verification flow a high overall quality results.

Product details

• Authors: Rolf Drechsler, Danie Grosse, Daniel Große
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9789400791923
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079192-3
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 170 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; C, Software Engineering, Microprocessors, engineering, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Circuits and Systems, Operating systems, Electronic circuits, Electronic Circuits and Systems, Computer architecture & logic design, Register-Transfer-Level Implementation