Incremental ABV for Functional Validation of TL-to-RTL Design Refinement

Nicola Bombieri, Franco Fummi, Graziano Pravadelli
2007 2007 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition  
Transaction-level modeling (TLM) has been proposed as the leading strategy to address the always increasing complexity of digital systems. However, its introduction arouses a new challenge for designers and verification engineers, since there are no mature tools to automatically synthesize an RTL implementation from a transaction-level (TL) design, thus manual refinements are mandatory. In this context, the paper presents an incremental assertionbased verification (ABV) methodology to check the
more » ... correctness of the TL-to-RTL refinement. The methodology relies on reusing assertions and already checked code, and it is guided by an assertion coverage metrics. 978-3-9810801-2-4/DATE07 © 2007 EDAA
doi:10.1109/date.2007.364404 dblp:conf/date/BombieriFP07 fatcat:5nowcv3bizdf7pestkrmhse4bi