Quality-Driven SystemC Design

Quality-Driven SystemC Design
Author: Daniel Große
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2009-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9048136318

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.

Models, Methods, and Tools for Complex Chip Design

Models, Methods, and Tools for Complex Chip Design
Author: Jan Haase
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-09-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319014188

This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the fifteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which was held in September 2012 at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. FDL is a well-established international forum devoted to dissemination of research results, practical experiences and new ideas in the application of specification, design and verification languages to the design, modeling and verification of integrated circuits, complex hardware/software embedded systems, and mixed-technology systems.

Enhanced Virtual Prototyping for Heterogeneous Systems

Enhanced Virtual Prototyping for Heterogeneous Systems
Author: Muhammad Hassan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031055748

This book describes a comprehensive combination of methodologies that strongly enhance the modern Virtual Prototype (VP)-based verification flow for heterogeneous systems-on-chip (SOCs). In particular, the book combines verification and analysis aspects across various stages of the VP-based verification flow, providing a new perspective on verification by leveraging advanced techniques, like metamorphic testing, data flow testing, and information flow testing. In addition, the book puts a strong emphasis on advanced coverage-driven methodologies to verify the functional behavior of the SOC as well as ensure its security. Provides an extensive introduction to the modern VP-based verification flow for heterogeneous SOCs; Introduces a novel metamorphic testing technique for heterogeneous SOCs which does not require reference models; Includes automated advanced data flow coverage-driven methodologies tailored for SystemC/AMS-based VPs; Describes enhanced functional coverage-driven methodologies to verify various functional behaviors of RF amplifiers.

Graph Transformation

Graph Transformation
Author: Hartmut Ehrig
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364233654X

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Graph Transformations, ICGT 2012, held in Bremen, Germany, in September 2012. The 30 papers and 3 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on behavioural analysis, high-level graph transformation, revisited approaches, general transformation models, structuring and verification, graph transformations in use, (meta-)model evolution and incremental approaches.

Formal Specification Level

Formal Specification Level
Author: Mathias Soeken
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-11-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319086995

This book introduces a new level of abstraction that closes the gap between the textual specification of embedded systems and the executable model at the Electronic System Level (ESL). Readers will be enabled to operate at this new, Formal Specification Level (FSL), using models which not only allow significant verification tasks in this early stage of the design flow, but also can be extracted semi-automatically from the textual specification in an interactive manner. The authors explain how to use these verification tasks to check conceptual properties, e.g. whether requirements are in conflict, as well as dynamic behavior, in terms of execution traces.

Advanced Boolean Techniques

Advanced Boolean Techniques
Author: Rolf Drechsler
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2023-05-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031289161

This book describes recent findings in the domain of Boolean logic and Boolean algebra, covering application domains in circuit and system design, but also basic research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Content includes invited chapters and a selection of the best papers presented at the 15th annual International Workshop on Boolean Problems.

Complete Symbolic Simulation of SystemC Models

Complete Symbolic Simulation of SystemC Models
Author: Vladimir Herdt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3658126809

In his master thesis, Vladimir Herdt presents a novel approach, called complete symbolic simulation, for a more efficient verification of much larger (non-terminating) SystemC programs. The approach combines symbolic simulation with stateful model checking and allows to verify safety properties in (cyclic) finite state spaces, by exhaustive exploration of all possible inputs and process schedulings. The state explosion problem is alleviated by integrating two complementary reduction techniques. Compared to existing approaches, the complete symbolic simulation works more efficiently, and therefore can provide correctness proofs for larger systems, which is one of the most challenging tasks, due to the ever increasing complexity.

Languages, Design Methods, and Tools for Electronic System Design

Languages, Design Methods, and Tools for Electronic System Design
Author: Daniel Große
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030022153

This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the twentiethedition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which took place on September 18-20, 2017, in Verona, Italy. FDL is a well-established international forum devoted to dissemination of research results, practical experiences and new ideas in the application of specification, design and verification languages to the design, modeling and verification of integrated circuits, complex hardware/software embedded systems, and mixed-technology systems. Covers modeling and verification methodologies targeting digital and analog systems; Addresses firmware development and validation; Targets both functional and non-functional properties; Includes descriptions of methods for reliable system design.

Enhanced Virtual Prototyping

Enhanced Virtual Prototyping
Author: Vladimir Herdt
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030548287

This book presents a comprehensive set of techniques that enhance all key aspects of a modern Virtual Prototype (VP)-based design flow. The authors emphasize automated formal verification methods, as well as advanced coverage-guided analysis and testing techniques, tailored for SystemC-based VPs and also the associated Software (SW). Coverage also includes VP modeling techniques that handle functional as well as non-functional aspects and also describes correspondence analyses between the Hardware- and VP-level to utilize information available at different levels of abstraction. All approaches are discussed in detail and are evaluated extensively, using several experiments to demonstrate their effectiveness in enhancing the VP-based design flow. Furthermore, the book puts a particular focus on the modern RISC-V ISA, with several case-studies covering modeling as well as VP and SW verification aspects.