Title :
On compliance test of on-chip bus for SOC
Author :
Lin, Hue-Min ; Yen, Chia-Chih ; Shih, Che-Hua ; Jou, Jing-Yang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
We employ a monitor-based approach for on-chip bus (OCB) compliance test. To describe the OCB protocols, we propose a FSM model, which can help to extract the necessary properties systematically and verify the data part of a bus transfer efficiently. To demonstrate our methodology, we illustrate two OCB protocols, WISHBONE and AMBA AHB, as the study cases. The experimental results show that we can verify the OCB protocols efficiently and detect the design errors when tests fail.
Keywords :
finite state machines; formal verification; logic testing; protocols; system buses; system-on-chip; AMBA AHB protocol; WISHBONE protocol; compliance test; design error detection; monitor-based approach; on-chip bus; system-on chip; Automata; Buildings; Communication standards; Data mining; Logic design; Monitoring; Optical character recognition software; Protocols; System-on-a-chip; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2004. Asia and South Pacific
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8175-0
DOI :
10.1109/ASPDAC.2004.1337590