A proposal for transaction-level verification with Component Wrapper Language

We propose a new approach to accelerate transaction level verification by raising the productivity of the verification suites including test patterns, protocol checker, and simulation-coverage analyzer This approach combines the conventional transaction level language such as C and the signal level language based on our previously developed Component Wrapper Language (CWL). This approach is based on two concepts. The first one is a complete separation between transaction-level verification and signal-level verification for generating suitable verification suites in each design phase. The second one is the quick generation of signal-level verification suites from the original specification written in CWL. Experimental results show that our approach should yield much shorter verification periods versus conventional methods.