Title
Instruction Based Synthesizable Testbench Architecture
Abstract
This paper presents a synthesizable testbench architecture based on a defined instruction for standalone mode verification. A set of instructions describes transitions of a signal. The set of instructions can be changed easily to describe different signal transitions by loading the different set of instructions on emulator's memory. The proposed testbench enables a fast emulation and increases flexibility and reusability by using an instruction set. To prove the performance of instruction based synthesizable testbench, we verified Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11a PHY baseband systems and compared their performance with those of co-sim mode and modified co-sim mode emulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/ietele/e89-c.5.653
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
verification, testbench, emulation, instruction
Design for testing,Baseband,Computer architecture,Instruction set,Circuit design,Emulation,Engineering,PHY,Bluetooth,Reusability,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E89C
5
1745-1353
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.74
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ho-seok Choi121.07
Haewook Choi2287.23
Sin-Chong Park38022.58