Verification by Error Modeling Using Testing Techniques in Hardware Verification /

• Main Authors: Radecka, Katarzyna (Author), Zilic, Zeljko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
• Series: Frontiers in Electronic Testing, 25
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computers.; Computer-aided engineering.; Robotics.; Automation.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Robotics and Automation.; Circuits and Systems.; Electrical Engineering.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Computing Methodologies.

 1. DESIGN FLOW Integrated circuit (IC) complexity is steadily increasing. ICs incorporating hundreds of millions of transistors, mega-bit memories, complicated pipelined structures, etc., are now in high demand. For example, Intel Itanium II processor contains more than 200 million transistors, including a 3 MB third level cache. A billion transistor IC was said to be “imminently doable” by Intel fellow J. Crawford at Microprocessor Forum in October 2002 [40]. Obviously, designing such complex circuits poses real challenges to engineers. Certainly, no relief comes from the competitive marketplace, with increasing demands for a very narrow window of time (time-to-market) in engineering a ready product. Therefore, a systematic and well-structured approach to designing ICs is a must. Although there are no widely adhered standards for a design flow, most companies have their own established practices, which they follow closely for in-house design processes. In general, however, a typical product cycle includes few milestones. An idea for a new product starts usually from an - depth market analysis of customer needs. Once a window of opportunity is found, product requirements are carefully specified. Ideally, these parameters would not change during the design process. In practice, initial phases of preparing a design specification are susceptible to potential errors, as it is very difficult to grasp all the details in a complex design. 

 Boolean Function Representations -- Don’t Cares and Their Calculation -- Testing -- Design Error Models -- Design Verification by At -- Identifying Redundant Gate and Wire Replacements -- Conclusions and Future Work.