When to write to functional coverage plan?
The question is at what phase of the verification project should one be writing the functional coverage plan? Please note that, this question never comes up…
Functional coverage planning: Why we miss critical items?
World of dynamic simulation based functional verification is not real. Verification architects abstract reality to create the virtual worlds for design under test (DUT) in…
Classic automation in Functional verification
There are various areas of the functional verification, which requires automation beyond scope of standard simulator bundled tool chains. For some of these areas there…
Functional coverage for Micro-architecture – Why?
Functional coverage plan in order to be effective has to take into consideration two specifications. They are: Requirements specifications Micro-architecture implementation specifications In principle verification…
PCI Express PIPE interface functional coverage
What started off, as “PHY Interface for the PCI Express Architecture” was soon promoted to “PHY interface for the PCI Express, SATA and USB3.1 and…
Verification plan debate – Part IV
Continued from: Verification debate Part III Ananta could not sleep although he was really tired. His body was tired but his mind was still racing at full throttle….
Verification plan debate – Part III
Continued from: Verification debate Part II Few months had already rolled. It was bright sunny day. Ananta sensed tensed activity at the sheriff’s office. He asked one…
Verification plan debate – Part II
Continued from: Verification debate Part I Good morning Sheriff. I am Ananta. I was selected for citizen internship of 6 months. Welcome Ananta. Come let’s catch up…
Verification plan debate – Part I
Achyuta and Ananta were close friends over decades and practicing functional verification. Achyuta always takes a carefully planned approach while Ananta believes in jumping to action as soon…
Pentium FDIV bug and curious engineer
According to wikipedia Pentium FDIV bug affects the floating point unit(FPU) of the early intel Pentium processors. Because of this bug incorrect floating point results…