| Title | Scalable Simulation-Based Verification of SystemC-Based Virtual Prototypes |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Goli, Mehran, Drechsler, Rolf |
| Conference Name | 2019 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) |
| Keywords | Clang, compositionality, Computational modeling, Computer simulation, design verification, Electronic System Level, formal specification, formal verification, Hardware, hardware description languages, Object oriented modeling, Predictive Metrics, Protocols, Prototypes, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, scalable verification, semiconductor industry, simulation behavior, Simulation-based Verification, Standards, SystemC, SystemC language, SystemC VP, SystemC-based virtual prototypes, systems analysis, Timing, TLM, TLM-2.0 rules, Transaction Level Modeling framework, verification, Virtual Prototype, virtual prototyping |
| Abstract | Virtual Prototypes (VPs) at the Electronic System Level (ESL) written in SystemC language using its Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) framework are increasingly adopted by the semiconductor industry. The main reason is that VPs are much earlier available, and their simulation is orders of magnitude faster in comparison to the hardware models implemented at lower levels of abstraction (e.g. RTL). This leads designers to use VPs as reference models for an early design verification. Hence, the correctness assurance of these reference models (VPs) is critical as undetected faults may propagate to less abstract levels in the design process, increasing the fixing cost and effort. In this paper, we propose a novel simulation-based verification approach to automatically validate the simulation behavior of a given SystemC VP against both the TLM-2.0 rules and its specifications (i.e. functional and timing behavior of communications in the VP). The scalability and the efficiency of the proposed approach are demonstrated using an extensive set of experiments including a real-word VP. |
| DOI | 10.1109/DSD.2019.00081 |
| Citation Key | goli_scalable_2019 |
Scalable Simulation-Based Verification of SystemC-Based Virtual Prototypes