System-Level Validation, 2013
High-Level Modeling and Directed Test Generation Techniques

This book covers state-of-the art techniques for high-level modeling and validation of complex hardware/software systems, including those with multicore architectures.  Readers will learn to avoid time-consuming and error-prone validation from the comprehensive coverage of system-level validation, including high-level modeling of designs and faults, automated generation of directed tests, and efficient validation methodology using directed tests and assertions.  The methodologies described in this book will help designers to improve the quality of their validation, performing as much validation as possible in the early stages of the design, while reducing the overall validation effort and cost.

Introduction.- Modeling and Specification of SoC Designs.- Automated Generation of Directed Tests.- Functional Test Compaction.- Property Clustering and Learning Techniques.- Decision Ordering Based Learning Techniques.- Synchronized Generation of Directed Tests.- Learning-Oriented Property Decomposition Approaches.- Directed Test Generation for Multicore Architectures.- Test Generation for Cache Coherence Validation.- Reuse of System-Level Tests for Implementation Validation.- Conclusion.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to system-level validation Describes high-level modeling using SystemC, UML and transaction-level models Includes coverage of high-level modeling and directed test generation techniques as well efficient validation methodology using directed tests and assertions Shows how to assure consistency between models with test/assertion refinement and reuse techniques across different levels of abstraction Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras