748 results about "Functional verification" patented technology

A jaw heating element of a handpiece of a thermal tissue operating system is tested on an ongoing basis by supplying a test heater power signal to the jaw heating element between individual thermal tissue operations. Voltage and current through the jaw heating element is sensed and the resistance of the jaw heating element is calculated. If the calculated resistance is outside a range of predetermined acceptable values, an error condition is indicated.

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a data hold circuit, and a controller A program control function applies a program voltage to a selected memory cell to let data shift from a first logic state to a second logic state. A program verify control function verifies that a programmed data of the selected memory cell shifted to the second logic state. An erratic program verify control function checks that a threshold voltage of a memory cell to be held in the first logic state does not exceed a third value set as an upper limit value of a variation of the first logic state. An over-program verify control function checks that a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell shifted to the second logic state does not exceed a fourth value set as an upper limit thereof.

The invention belongs to an unmanned vehicle test and verification platform and a test method thereof in the field of unmanned vehicles. The platform comprises a driving simulation system, an experimental field, a network system, an upper level management center and an unmanned vehicle. The driving simulation system constructs a driving environment of a virtual vehicle according to the information collected in a natural scene; the traffic scene of the actual site of the experimental field coincides with the scene modeled by the driving simulation system; and the upper level management center is used for establishing a simulator driving environment, controlling the driving simulation system and processing data; the unmanned vehicle is a test vehicle and is automatically driven in the experimental field; and the driving information of the unmanned vehicle is transmitted to the upper level management center through a network system and then transmitted to the driving simulator of the driving simulation system. According to the invention, function verification and performance evaluation of the unmanned vehicle can be studied, and meanwhile, influences by the unmanned vehicle on an actual traffic flow can be studied and evaluated through the platform.

A dynamic test generation method and apparatus enabling verification of the parallel instruction execution capabilities of VLIW processor systems is described. The test generator includes a user preference queue, a rules table, plurality of resource-related data structures, an instruction packer, and an instruction generator and simulator. The present invention generates a test by selecting instructions for parallel execution based upon resource availability as indicated by the resource-related data structures and the processor's instruction grouping rules, simulating the parallel execution of the instructions on a golden model, updating the resource-related data structures, and evaluating the updated architectural state of the golden model.

Simulation continues to be the primary technique for functional validation of designs. It is important that simulation vectors be effective in targeting the types of bugs designers expect to find rather than some generic coverage metrics. The focus of this work is to generate property-specific testbenches that are targeted either at proving the correctness of a property or at finding a bug. It is based on performing property-specific analysis on iteratively less abstract models of the design in order to obtain interesting paths in the form of a Witness Graph, which is then targeted during simulation of the entire design. This testbench generation framework will form an integral part of a comprehensive verification system currently being developed.

A system providing methodology for securing interfaces of executable files is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for securing a program comprised of a plurality of interoperable components, the method comprises steps of: extracting information about a function of a first component of the program that is callable by at least one other component of the program; securing the extracted information; in response to an attempt by a second component of the program to invoke the function of the first component, validating authenticity of the second component; and if the second component is validated, providing access to the function of the first component using the secured extracted information.

Database mining, analysis and optimization techniques in conjunction with the model-based functional coverage analysis are used to turn raw verification and coverage data into design intelligence (DI) and verification intelligence (VI). The required data and attributes are automatically extracted from verification, simulation and coverage analysis databases. Design finite state machine extraction, design functional event extraction, and automatic coverage model generation and optimization techniques are applied to the design HDL description. Coverage model tuning and optimization directives, as well as test spec tuning and optimization directives are generated based on the analysis and mining of various verification, simulation, and coverage databases. An integrated web-based interface portlet is used for access, analysis and management of the resulting databases, generated reports and verification directives. Dissemination rules are used to automatically generate and distribute analysis reports and verification directives to engineers at wired or wireless interface devices via Internet or Intranet.

System, methods, and apparatus for verifying microcircuit designs by interleaving between random and formal simulation techniques to identify input traces useful for driving designs under test into sequences of device states. In a method aspect the invention provides process for beginning random simulation of a sequence of states of a microcircuit design by inputting a sequence of random input vectors to a design under test model in order to obtain a sequence of random simulation states; monitoring a simulation coverage progress metric to determine a preference for switching from random simulation to formal methods of simulating states in the design under test; beginning formal simulation of states in the design under test and monitoring a formal coverage progress metric to determine a preference for resuming random simulation of states of said microcircuit design; and resuming random simulation. Preferably the process of interleaving simulation methods continues until an input vector suitable for driving the design under test model into each of a set of previously-identified goal states has been obtained.

Methods, systems, and media for managing functional verification of a parameterizable design are disclosed. Embodiments include a system having a testbench configuration module adapted to configure a testbench, the testbench having testbench signals and one or more instantiated components having a plurality of ports of a generic design, where the testbench signals are wired to the plurality of ports. The testbench may also have one or more instantiated special components based on chip-specific versions of the design where the special components are wired to the same ports as the generic design. The system may also include a functional verification manager that, through a component module, observes values in the testbench and automatically configure a verification environment based on the observed values, including automatic insertion of checkers at different levels of hierarchy. The testbench may be a VHDL or Verilog testbench in some embodiments.

The invention relates to a method for constructing a verification and test platform of network chip module level functions, comprising the construction of a simulation and reference model of the tested modules, which is characterized in that: the method comprises the construction of all modules and documents; the output of an excitation generating model is connected with the inputs of the tested module and the simulation and reference model, a clock and a reset generating module are connected with the tested module and the clock and reset signal of the simulation and reference model, a register initialization module is connected with the register of the tested module and the simulation and reference model, and a CPU simulation module is connected with the CPU of the tested module; the output of the tested module is connected with the simulation and reference model, thus, the network chip module level function verification and test platform can be constructed. The invention has the advantages that the platform can be constructed easily and directly, so the time required to construct the module level function verification and test platform can be shortened greatly in the high performance network chip verification process; meanwhile, the platform constructed by the method has clear structure which is easy to be understood and has improved reliability.

Systems and methods of using hardware to simulate software, specifically the semantic operations defined in HDL simulation languages. Traditional software HDL simulation kernel operations of advancing time, activating threads in response to notified events, and scheduling those threads of execution are handled via a simulation controller. The simulation controller is comprised of a timing wheel, an event-processor, a thread / process dispatch engine, a token processor, and a resource-allocator. These components work together with a control logic component to perform the semantic operations of an HDL software kernel.

The invention relates to a PCIE verification method based on the UVM. The PCIE verification method is characterized in that the UVM and a system-level hardware descriptive language are adopted, a verification environment platform is set up through a high-level extensible interface bus behavior model, functional verification is implemented on a PCIE module, and the verification environment platform comprises a test case, a sequence generator, an AXI drive module, a PIPE drive module, an AXI monitoring module, a PIPE monitoring module, a PCIE reference model, a scoreboard and a functional coverage rate module. Due to the fact that the UVM is implemented, a stratified verification structure can be obtained, the PCIE with different types of configuration can be easily transplanted and verified, random data packet excitation can be generated through constraints, all instructions and addresses can be traversed, and the functional coverage rate module can also collect and monitor the coverage rate.

A programmed computer searches for functional defects in a description of a circuit undergoing functional verification in the following manner. The programmed computer simulates the functional behavior of the circuit in response to a test vector, automatically restores the state of the simulation without causing the simulation to pass through a reset state, and then simulates the functional behavior of the circuit in response to another test vector. A predetermined rule can be used to identify test vectors to be simulated, and the predetermined rule can depend upon a measure of functional verification, including the number of times during simulation when a first state transition is performed by a first controller at the same time as a second state transition is performed by a second controller. During simulation of the test vectors, manually generated tests or automatically generated checkers can monitor portions of the circuit for defective behavior.

A cryptographic system (100) and methodology executable within the cryptographic system (100) enable the use of a programmable logic device PLD (108) in a single chip cryptographic design flow for secure cryptographic services. Methodology for secure configuration of the PLD (108) within a cryptographic system 100 entails secure configuration and authentication (202), functional verification (204), configuration key reload capability (206), traffic key load capability (208) using a split key technique, isolation between command and key fill domains for secure key fill (210) of key material, redundant system instantiation (212), and high speed comparison for secure operation.

The invention relates to a software and hardware co-emulation verification system based on FPGA and a method thereof. The system comprises a network tester, a software system part which is arranged on an user PC terminal and a hardware system part used for simulating an integrated circuit chip; wherein, the software system part comprises a controlling platform of the network tester and an embedded system interface module; the hardware system part comprises a CPU interface module, an interface converter logic module in FPGA, a virtual waiting-for-testing module and a network interface module which can be used for realizing data exchanging between the interface converter logic module and the controlling platform of the network tester. The method is formed on the basis of the systems. The software and hardware co-emulation verification system based on FPGA and the method thereof have the advantages of being capable of carrying out high-speed emulation, greatly saving the time consumption for testing, realizing the whole-chip and whole-function verification and supporting the testing of a plurality of varieties of chips; simultaneously, the invention also has good physical expandability, adopts good debugging tools and further increases the emulation verification efficiency.

A functional verification system suited for verifying the function of non-cycle based integrated circuits (IC) design. The IC design is divided into a plurality of combinatorial blocks connecting sequential elements. Truth tables corresponding the divided blocks are computed and stored in a memory. The output values of the IC design are determined by evaluating the blocks. The evaluation typically entails one memory access as the truth tables are pre-computed and stored in a memory storage. Accordingly the output values are computed quickly. The storage is implemented using random access memories and a XCON is designed to ensure the dependencies are preserved during the evaluations.

A semiconductor integrated circuit has a data generation circuit configured to generate first data used for function verification of a built-in self test circuit and a built-in redundancy allocation circuit of a memory, a failure data generation circuit configured to generate second data for conducting a built in self test by inverting at least one bit of the first data based on a failure injection indication signal, and a timing circuit configured to adjust timing of at least one of the first and the second data in order to use one of the first and the second data as writing data to the memory and to use the other as an output expected value compared with data read out from the memory.

In an emulation system, a method is provided to schedule evaluations of state elements and memory elements receiving signals from multiple asynchronous clock domains, such that causality and hold time requirements are satisfied. In addition, a method is provided such that logic signals responsive to multiple asynchronous clock domains are transported along separate single domain path of substantially equal transit times. In one implementation, the scheduling method computes departure times and ready times for output and input terminals of logic modules, such as FPGAS.

A system for processing transaction data is provided. The system includes a transaction data format system receiving transaction data and generating transaction data format error data, such as when the transaction data is not in compliance with a transaction data format. The system also includes a transaction data rules system receiving the transaction data and generating transaction rule error data, such as when the transaction data is in the proper format but nevertheless violates a rule of one or more financial processing system.

A computer is programmed in accordance with the invention to automatically analyze a digital circuit, to check if the digital circuit can enter a target state starting from a start state, by reusing information learned during a another analysis, checking if the same digital circuit can enter the same or different target state from a different start state. Use of learned information in accordance with the invention simplifies the analysis of the digital circuit (e.g. by allowing skipping one or more analysis acts). The learned information may be stored in a database. Depending on the embodiment, the two or more analyses may check on operation of the digital circuit for the same or different numbers of cycles.

The invention discloses a locomotive semi-physical simulation device, system and method. The device comprises a real-time simulation unit, a computer and an electrical signal conversion unit. The computer converts a control instruction for simulating an upper-layer network control system into a bus communication protocol, and then sends the bus communication protocol to a communication conversion unit of the electrical signal conversion unit. The communication conversion unit sends the control instruction to an external physical controller, the physical controller outputs a control signal to a controlled object model according to the control instruction, the control signal is sent to a real-time simulation unit via the electrical signal conversion unit, the real-time simulation unit calculates a output result of a state signal of the controlled object model according to the control signal, the output result is sent to the physical controller via the electrical signal conversion unit, and the physical controller sends the state signal of the controlled object model back to the computer via the communication conversion unit. The technical problems that simulation integrity and precision of an existing system are not high, function verification cannot be accurately performed, the modification period is long, and efficiency and performability are low are solved.

An integrated circuit modeling method 100 implementable on computer, which has an executable software model 145 having modules 140 of reusable functional cores 105 coded in a high level language and a virtual platform of the integrated circuit employable in an architecture exploration step 115. A modeling library of modules coded in high level languages and hardware level languages are provided and instantiated according to user input in a functional verification step 120 having a co-simulation environment, with interface code 170 between modules automatically generated by an interface generator 130 based on a two dimensional data array of hardware specification inputs 205, the interface code 170 further interfacing with wrappers engaged between high and hardware level language modules.

In the field of functional verification of digital designs in systems that use an abstraction for portions of a circuit design to perform the verification proof, a tool is described for resolving inconsistencies between the design and abstractions for the design. The tool provides information to a user about intermediate steps in the verification process. In response, the user may provide insight about the design to allow the tool to adjust the verification analysis of the design. The information provided to the user, including possible conflicts between the design and its abstractions, may include visualization techniques to facilitate the user's understating of any inconsistencies.

A method, a system and a computer program product for re-using verification results associated with a circuit design to eliminate a formal verification re-run associated with a subsequent verification of the circuit design. A Verification Data Re-use (VDR) utility initiates the creation of a first netlist data structure and a first set of target signatures for the circuit design. The VDR utility initiates an initial functional verification run of the circuit design and stores the results of the verification run. When a subsequent verification of the initial design is initiated, the VDR utility compares the first set of target signatures with a second set of target signatures for the subsequent verification run. A match of target signatures indicates that corresponding design targets have an identical functionality and the VDR utility re-uses verification results from the initial verification run to eliminate an extensive formal verification

The invention relates to a method for establishing a large-scale network chip verification platform. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, establishing a control text document, and then writing an initial function of a random function library, and writing a calling function of the random function library; secondly, establishing a module-level function verification platform, comprising the following steps of: generating a top-level module of the module-level function verification platform, establishing a clock generating module and a reset generating module, establishing an interface signal module, establishing a test vector generating module, establishing a register configuring module and establishing a reference model module of a tested module; and thirdly, establishing a chip-level function verification platform, comprising the following steps of: generating a top-level module of the chip-level function verification platform, multiplexing the clock generating module, the rest module, the interface signal module, the test vector generating module, the register configuring module and the reference model module of the module-level function verification platform, and establishing a CPU simulation model. The method has a strong function, high efficiency, stability and simple structure. By means of the invention, the time for setting up the network chip verification platform can be greatly shortened and the stimulation efficiency can be improved.

The invention relates to a functional verification method of an on-chip multi-core processor. The functional verification method comprises the following steps that: a reference model and interfaces of the reference model and a multi-core processor to be verified are established, the reference model accepts the file input in a set format, carries out operations of instruction fetching, decoding, execution and the like, and outputs corresponding values in the processes; and the reference model compares an output value of the reference model with the output value of multi-core processor to be verified, thus finishing the functional verification. According to the functional verification method of the on-chip multi-core processor, the scheduling problem that the concurrent on-chip multi-core processors are stimulated by serial stimulators (reference models) can be effectively solved.