Assertions are a powerful tool for design verification, but you need to be able to evaluate their effectiveness. Assertion-based coverage metrics provide an answer. During the decade of the 1980s, it ...

Abstract: Code coverage plays an important role in verification. It is essential to meet the target numbers for the code coverage metrics at the end of functional verification. The verification of a ...

System-on-a-chip (SoC) functional verification involves integrating multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks. Accordingly, understanding how to define, measure, correlate, and analyze appropriate IP ...

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Coverage-driven verification enables the structured, measurable and manageable verification of today’s extraordinarily large and complex SoCs. Establishing predetermined objectives and planning for ...

Chip-verification teams often confront one fundamental question: “How well is the verification process exercising the design?” Attempts to answer this query have led to the development of several ...

This example shows how to generate coverage for unit and integration tests using Maven and Sonar. It uses very simple techniques and should only take 10-15 minutes to get running in any existing Maven ...