New Advances in Verification and Debugging of Hardware Systems.

Date of Submission

December 2015

Date of Award

Winter 12-12-2016

Institute Name (Publisher)

Indian Statistical Institute

Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Degree Name

Master of Technology

Subject Name

Computer Science

Department

Advance Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU-Kolkata)

Supervisor

Banerjee, Ansuman (ACMU-Kolkata; ISI)

Abstract (Summary of the Work)

Increasing design complexity, skyrocketing fabrication costs for modern digital systems coupled with an unacceptably large number of silicon respins led to growing importance of comprehensive and automated design verification. This thesis is an attempt to enhance the state of the art in a verification and debugging of hardware systems.Assertions play a vital role in specifying and testing the expected behavior of the digital circuit designs. The current generation of hardware simulation tools evaluate each assertion separately by converting them into finite state automatons before simulation. In this dissertation, we propose an efficient technique for linear temporal logic (LTL) assertion evaluation. The proposed technique, EAST (Efficient Assertion Simulation Techniques), creates a shared data structure from the set of assertions using some simple rules, based on the operators during preprocessing. EAST infers the decision of the assertions during simulation without evaluating the assertion expressions. This approach is scalable for large designs.Akin to software configuration management, it is becoming commonplace to maintain large hardware design code-bases with hardware configuration management tools. A missing piece of crucial technology in the approach of hardware configuration management tools is to manage design verification across evolving hardware designs. In this work, we propose an efficient methodology, EvoDeb for automatically localizing design errors across design variants. EvoDeb can be seamlessly integrated into existing hardware design flows. Experimental results exhibit the efficacy of our proposals.

Comments

ProQuest Collection ID: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:28843135

Control Number

ISI-DISS-2015-315

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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DOI

http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/6472

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