A Novel Collaborative Verification Environment for SoC Co-Verification

We designs and implements a system-on-chip SW/HW co-verification environment SoC-Gen, which collaborates formal verification and simulation techniques for SoC co-verification. This paper first give an overview of SoC-Gen, and then focus on the simulation based verification environment: SoC-CBSHVE, which based on componential design and integration methodology The environment adopts automatic software, hardware and simulation wrappers. Simulator adopts asynchronous parallel algorithm and bus-based communication mechanism. Five data buses support verification components simulation communication. Standard message format and unify simulation interfaces easy SoC components design and verification. Experimental results show that SoC-CBSHVE enables easy debugging, rich portability, and high verification speed, at a low cost for system-on-chip system-level software and hardware co-verification.