Verification by Error Modeling: Using Testing Techniques in Hardware Verification

ISBN-13: 9781402076527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 216 str.

Katarzyna Radecka; Zeljko Zilic

Opis

This book presents the basis for reusing the test vector generation and simulation for the purpose of implementation verification, to result in a significant timesaving. It brings the results in the direction of merging manufacturing test vector generation and verification.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This monograph presents, as its main contribution, methods to gain more confidence in verification by simulation. ... The methods presented in this book may be suitable to verify gate level circuits which may have small modifications after automatic optimization or some manual interaction." (Reiner Kolla, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1049 (24), 2004)

Spis treści

1: Introduction. 1. Design flow. 2. Verification - approaches and problems. 3. Book objectives. 2: Boolean function representations. 1. Background - function representations. 2. Decision diagrams. 3. Spectral representations. 4. Arithmetic transform. 3: Don't cares and their calculation. 1. Incompletely specified Boolean functions. 2. Using don't cares for redundancy identification. 4: Testing. 1. Introduction. 2. Fault list reduction. 3. Overview of simulators. 4. Fault simulators. 5. Deterministic vector generation - ATPG. 6. Conclusions. 5: Design error models. 1. Introduction. 2. Design errors. 3. Explicit design error models. 4. Implicit error model precursors. 5. Additive implicit error model. 6. Design error detection and correction. 7. Conclusions. 6: Design verification by AT. 1. Introduction. 2. Detecting small AT errors. 3. Bounding error by Walsh transform. 4. Experimental results. 5. Conclusions. 7: Identifying redundant gate and wire replacements. 1. Introduction. 2. Gate replacement faults. 3. Redundancy detection by don't cares. 4.Exact redundant fault identification. 5. Identifying redundant wire replacements. 6. Exact wire redundancy identification. 7. I/O port replacement detection. 8. Experimental results. 9. Conclusions. Conclusions and furtherwork. 1. Conclusions. 2. Future work. Appendices. References. Index.