Automation in Validation of Library Views

Abstract

Innovations in the Technology industry have made our daily life easier than ever before. Devices like Cellphones,Desktops,Wi-fi,Touch Sensors and many other components of digital world are getting efficient and smarter each day. All these devices contains a ”Integrated Circuit(chip)” which is designed to perform some specific function. Chips play an important role in evolution of Technology.Intellectual Property (IP) in Integrated Circuit(IC) is portable design which can be reused.It is nothing but the block of functionality which is licensed to different vendors when used in different chip designs. IP contains different views like gds, cdl, lib,db,lef,def etc.In order to make a device’s functioning correct, one needs to validate IP which in turn leads to validation of Library Views.IP validation is an indispensable aspect that helps to detect critical issues prior to use in the actual System on Chip (SoC) Design.This demands the need for an IP validation solution that accurately verifies the correctness and sufficiency of the IP design.IP Validation can be done by Two approaches: Manual Validation and Automated Validation. Manual Validation is executed by person without any help of Tool/Software.Due to some limitations like less accurate result,less reliability, more Time consuming we require Automated Validation which is executed with the help of Software/Tool.This thesis portrays ta scalable IP Validation Solution that provides an intensive checking of the given IP views while concealing all the intricacies from the Designer and thus increasing the ease of use.The proposed solution is replacement of the existing IP validation Tool.(IPScreen)