摘要:
The invention generally relates to design verification, and more particularly to verification of non-deterministic behavior of a design under test. A method includes predicting a plurality of behaviors of a design under test (DUT), and forking respective verification tasks for each one of the plurality of behaviors. The method further includes verifying an actual behavior of the DUT with each of the verification tasks, and terminating a respective one of the verification tasks when the actual behavior of the DUT does not conform to the respective one of the verification tasks.
摘要:
A method and system for testing a circuit design. The method including generating a simulation model of the circuit design, the circuit design comprising one or more source latches, one or more destination latches and a logic function connected between the source latches and the destination latches; generating a modified simulation model of the simulation model by inserting random skew between an output of each source latch and an input of the logic function only in asynchronous data paths between the source latches and the destination latches of the simulation model; and running the modified simulation model.
摘要:
A program product for a message processing system in which messages are transmitted from source nodes to destination nodes. A transmission flow control technique is disclosed in which the source node optimistically sends control information and a data portion of a message, and wherein a destination node discards the data portion of the message if it is unable to accommodate it. The destination node, however, retains enough of the control information to identify the message to the source node, and when the destination node is subsequently able to accommodate the data portion, the destination node issues a request to the source node to retransmit the data portion of the message. Discarding of one message is followed by discards of sequential messages, until the destination node is able to accommodate the data portions of messages. The flow control technique disclosed herein is used, for example, in an environment where buffers are posted to accommodate messages at the destination node, and is particularly suited for conditions arising in multi-tasking systems where the destination node is generally assumed to be prepared to accommodate data, however, if not prepared, is likely not prepared for long periods of time.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for reducing data expansion during data compression are provided that allow the coding scheme used to compress data to be swapped between two or more coding schemes. Specifically, a coding window is provided that holds data to be compressed, and the compression potential of data entering or exiting the coding window is calculated. When a first threshold compression potential sum of data entering the window is reached, the coding scheme used to compress the data within the coding window is swapped from one coding scheme to another. A new compression potential sum is set based upon the compression potential of data exiting the window. The compression potential sum comprises a running total of the compression potential of data entering the coding window; and the coding scheme used to compress data within the coding window is swapped from one coding scheme to another when the compression potential sum reaches a first predetermined value. Preferably the first predetermined value is programmable and is related to the bit cost required to swap back and forth between coding schemes. The two preferred coding schemes are ALDC Lempel-Ziv 1 coding and a pass-through coding scheme wherein raw data is passed unencoded. A coding window circuit also is provided that allows analysis of the compression potential of data in accordance with the above method.
摘要:
An adaptive lossless data compression method for compression of color image data in a data processing system. The method includes comparing a plurality of components of a plurality of adjacent pixels in a digital image, calculating spatial differences between the plurality of adjacent pixels, encoding the spatial differences and recording the encoded spatial differences, formatting an image file representing the digital image into byte streams based on bit significance, and compressing, independently, the byte streams associated with each bit significance of the encoded spatial differences.
摘要:
A digital circuit simulation method. The method starts with a digital circuit design which includes: a first source latch, a destination latch, a logic cone, a first WAM circuit electrically coupling an output of the first source latch to a first input of the logic cone, and a WAGG circuit electrically coupling an output of the logic cone and an input of the first source latch. Then, a zero-delay simulation is performed in which if a first situation of (a) the first WAM circuit entering an uncertainty state in which the first WAM circuit generates a random value of 1 or 0 at the first input of the logic cone, (b) the logic cone being vulnerable to a positive glitch, and (c) the output of the logic cone being at logic 0, the WAGG circuit generates a random value of 0 or 1 at the input of the destination latch.
摘要:
Embodiments herein present a method for automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems. The method provides a database of transactors for generating and checking data within the datapath system, wherein the transactors are adaptable to arbitrary configurations of the datapath system. The database is provided with a single set of transactors per core. Next, the method automatically selects one set of transactors from the database for inclusion into the simulation testbenches. Following this, the method maps the first datapath and the second datapath through the datapath system by interconnecting the selected set of the transactors with the datapath system. The method further comprises setting control pins on the cores to facilitate propagation of the data through the cores of the datapath system. Subsequently, the control pins are traced to input ports and control registers.
摘要:
An optical transmission method. Signal transmissions between cores of an integrated circuit are performed. Each signal transmission is between two cores of a different pair of cores of the integrated circuit. Each signal transmission includes transmission of an optical signal in the visible or infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum at a wavelength that is specific to each different pair of cores and is a different wavelength for each different pair of cores. There is no overhead for decoding or arbitration in preforming the signal transmissions that would otherwise exist if a same wavelength for the optical signals were permitted for pairs of cores of the different pairs of cores.
摘要:
A system provides communication between a plurality of cores in an integrated circuit. The system comprises a circular segmented bus operatively connected to each of the cores for transferring data between the plurality of cores. An arbiter arbitrates which of the plurality of cores can transmit data at any given time.
摘要:
A solution for generating functional coverage bins for testing a device is disclosed. A method includes: receiving information of a failing test generated from a random simulation performed on the device; tracing a first sequence of signal events that happened in the failing test; correlating the signal events to coverage bins to generate a sequence of coverage bins; creating cross coverage event sequence bins based on the sequence of coverage bins; and outputting the created coverage event sequence bins for testing the device.