System-On-A-Chip Verification: Methodology and Techniques (Hardcover, 2002)

Authors. Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1: Introduction. 1.1. Technology Challenges. 1.2. Verification Technology Options. 1.3. Verification Methodology. 1.4. Testbench Creation. 1.5. Testbench Migration. 1.6. Verification Languages. 1.7. Verification IP Reuse. 1.8. Verification Approaches. 1.9. Verification and Device Test. 1.10. Verification Plans. 1.11. Bluetooth SOC: A Reference Design. 2: System-Level Verification. 2.1. System Design. 2.2. System Verification. 2.3. Bluetooth SOC. 3: Block-Level Verification. 1.1. IP Blocks. 3.2. Block Level Verification. 3.3. Block Details of the Bluetooth SOC. 3.4. Lint Checking. 3.5. Formal Model Checking. 3.6. Functional Verification/Simulation. 3.7. Protocol Checking. 3.8. Directed Random Testing. 3.9. Code Coverage Analysis. 4: Analog/Mixed Signal Simulation. 4.1. Mixed-Signal Simulation. 4.2. Design Abstraction Levels. 4.3. Simulation Environment. 4.4. Using SPICE. 4.5. Simulation Methodology. 4.6. Bluetooth SOC Digital-to-Analog Converter. 4.7. Chip-Level Verification with an AMS Block. 5: Simulation. 5.1. Functional Simulation. 5.2. Testbench Wrappers. 5.3. Event-Based Simulation. 5.4. Cycle-Based Simulation. 5.5. Simulating the ASB/APB Bridge. 5.6. Mixed-Event/Cycle-Based Simulation. 5.7. Transaction-Based Verification. 5.8. Simulation Acceleration. 6: Hardware/Software Co-verification. 6.1. HW/SW Co-verification Environment. 6.2. Emulation. 6.3. Soft or Virtual Prototypes. 6.4. Co-verification. 6.5. Rapid Prototype Systems. 6.6. Comparing HW/SW Verification Methods. 6.7. FPGA-Based Design. 6.8. Developing Printed Circuit Boards. 6.9. Software Testing. 7: Static Netlist Verification. 7.1. Netlist Verification. 7.2. Bluetooth SOC Arbiter. 7.3. Equivalence Checking. 7.4. Static Timing Verification. 8: Physical Verification and Design Sign-off. 8.1. Design Checks. 8.2. Physical Effects Analysis. 8.3. Design Sign-off. Glossary. Index.