Coverage-driven stimuli generation

Shuo Yang, Robert Wille, Daniel Große, Rolf Drechler

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Abstract

Simulation-based verification is still one of the most important methods to validate the correctness of System-on-Chips. Here, explicitly specified stimuli need to be generated which trigger certain scenarios of the design. However, so far stimuli generation is mainly performed independently of the desired coverage. In this work, we propose approaches for coverage-driven stimuli generation. Despite a naive method, we introduce and discuss automatic and interactive methods for an improved stimuli generation. We show that explicitly considering coverage metrics leads to smaller and complete sets of stimuli.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012
Pages525-528
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012 - Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
Duration: 5 Sep 20128 Sep 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012

Conference

Conference15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityCesme, Izmir
Period5/09/128/09/12

Keywords

  • coverage
  • stimuli generation
  • validation
  • verification

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