Publication detail

HAVEN: An Open Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Functional Verification of Hardware

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M. LENGÁL, O. KAJAN, M.

Original Title

HAVEN: An Open Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Functional Verification of Hardware

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Functional verification is a widespread technique to check whether a hardware system satisfies a given correctness specification. As the complexity of modern hardware systems rises rapidly, it is a challenging task to find appropriate techniques for acceleration of this process. In this paper we present HAVEN, a freely available open functional verification framework that exploits the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology for cycle-accurate acceleration of simulation-based verification runs. HAVEN takes advantage of the inherent parallelism of hardware systems and moves the verified system together with transaction-based interface components of the functional verification environment from software into an FPGA. The presented framework is written in SystemVerilog and complies with the principles of functional verification methodologies (OVM, UVM), assertion-based verification, and also provides adequate debugging visibility, making its application range quite large. Our experiments confirm the assumption that the achieved acceleration is proportional to the complexity of the verified system.

Keywords

functional verification, testbench, SystemVerilog, hardware acceleration, FPGA

Authors

ZACHARIÁŠOVÁ, M.; LENGÁL, O.; KAJAN, M.

RIV year

2012

Released

20. 4. 2012

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Location

Berlin

ISBN

0302-9743

Periodical

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Year of study

2012

Number

7261

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

247

Pages to

253

Pages count

7

BibTex

@article{BUT76422,
  author="Marcela {Zachariášová} and Ondřej {Lengál} and Michal {Kajan}",
  title="HAVEN: An Open Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Functional Verification of Hardware",
  journal="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  year="2012",
  volume="2012",
  number="7261",
  pages="247--253",
  issn="0302-9743"
}