Overview
- Provides researchers with an in-depth understanding of the challenges in verifying dynamically reconfigurable systems and the state-of-the-art methods used to overcome them
- Guides engineers with systematic approaches and tools to achieve verification closure in their dynamically reconfigurable projects
- Includes a comprehensive set of case studies, with an analysis of real bugs detected in the designs described
- Uses tools and techniques compatible with mainstream products (e.g. Xilinx/Altera tools, Model Sim simulator, Verilog/VHDL design language, etc. …)
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This book analyzes the challenges in verifying Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems (DRS) with respect to the user design and the physical implementation of such systems. The authors describe the use of a simulation-only layer to emulate the behavior of target FPGAs and accurately model the characteristic features of reconfiguration. Readers are enabled with this simulation-only layer to maintain verification productivity by abstracting away the physical details of the FPGA fabric. Two implementations of the simulation-only layer are included: Extended Re Channel is a System C library that can be used to check DRS designs at a high level; ReSim is a library to support RTL simulation of a DRS reconfiguring both its logic and state. Through a number of case studies, the authors demonstrate how their approach integrates seamlessly with existing, mainstream DRS design flows and with well-established verification methodologies such as top-down modeling and coverage-driven verification.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Verification of Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA-based Systems
Authors: Lingkan Gong, Oliver Diessel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06838-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06837-4Published: 27 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38086-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06838-1Published: 08 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 216
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Processor Architectures, Electronic Circuits and Devices