VERIFICATION USING GENERIC PROTOCOL ADAPTERS

摘要

Verification IPs for the verification of semiconductor chip designs are designed to support specific interface protocols. Verification IP is expensive or unavailable to test devices with interfaces of uncommon protocols. Verification IP that uses a generic interface protocol, used in conjunction with simple adapters between interfaces of the VIP that use the generic protocol and interfaces of the device under test that use specific protocols, are reused to test interfaces with different specific protocols if the generic protocol supports a superset of the features of the specific protocols.

主权项

1. A non-transitory data storage medium for storing computer program code, the medium arranged to represent a computer program that, if executed by a computer, includes simulating:
an instance of a first verification intellectual property including an application programming interface; an instance of a second verification intellectual property including the application programming interface; an instance of a first adapter that implements a first specific protocol; and an instance of a second adapter that implements a second specific protocol.