A TLM Design for Verification Methodology

Transaction level modeling (TLM) is becoming a usual practice for simplifying system-level design and architecture exploration. Nevertheless, different problems arise when designers attempt to fully exploit the features of a TLM-based design flow. Transactors generation and RTL IP-cores abstraction, for example, can heavily affect the verification quality as they are manually accomplished by designers. This work presents a methodology that aims at reaching two goals: (i) to define a design for verification approach that is a guideline to automatize some parts of design implementation to make easier the subsequent verification phases and (ii) to combine static and dynamic techniques in order to improve the verification quality