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 no tools are available to automatically derive an RTL implementation from a transaction-level (TL) design, thus manual refinements are mandatory. In this context, the paper presents an incremental assertion-based verification (ABV) methodology to check the correctness of the TL-to-RTL refinement. The methodology relies on reusing TL assertions and TL code and it is guided by a assertion coverage metrics.
Incremental ABV for TL-to-RTL Design Refinement
BOMBIERI, Nicola;FUMMI, Franco;PRAVADELLI, Graziano
2006-01-01
Abstract
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 no tools are available to automatically derive an RTL implementation from a transaction-level (TL) design, thus manual refinements are mandatory. In this context, the paper presents an incremental assertion-based verification (ABV) methodology to check the correctness of the TL-to-RTL refinement. The methodology relies on reusing TL assertions and TL code and it is guided by a assertion coverage metrics.
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