Automation of Scalable Verification Environment

Abstract

Verification plays a major role in any SOC development. But however with increasing complexity of the SOCs , the process of verification is turning out to be the major bottleneck in any device development. More than 50% of the overall time spent for the project is consumed in verification and the scenario is getting worse day by day . There is a need to speed up the verification process.

The project assigned targeted the scalable verification environment of IA based hardware accelerators. The assigned SOC had various scalable entities, the verification environment of which was first studied and was made scalable. The remaining automating tasks had been performed using scripts resulting into faster testbench development for any scaled version of the assigned SOC.

The user only needs to give inputs corresponding to the no. of various scalable components in the SOC from the GUI and the memory map associated with the slave peripherals. The backend scripts would then scale up the existing verification environment hence saving the overall time spent for verification.The project implemented has been tested for different scalable versions of the RTL and is working fine.