ARM unleashes adaptive verification IP
Report from the 2007 Design Automation Conference, June 4-8, San Diego, CA.
-- Test & Measurement World, 6/6/2007 8:38:00 AM
On-chip communications systems are becoming increasingly complex, creating an immense verification challenge. ARM has announced the AMBA adaptive verification engine, which extracts and applies traffic profile information to predict how designs will perform. The approach complements existing random and directed-random verification methods by overlaying them with traffic generation adapted to specific system and application characteristics. The result is a reduction in effort and improved confidence when verifying complex SoC on-chip communications.
The IP consists of traffic generator masters along with monitoring and profile extraction hardware, and works with verification tools to control a slave traffic generator and provide protocol checking and coverage. The AMBA IP can be licensed as an add-on to verification flow tools and will be generally available in late 2007. www.arm.com
