Embedded tutorial - Analog-/mixed-signal verification methods for AMS coverage analysis.

authored by

Erich Barke, Andreas Fürtig, Georg Gläser, Christoph Grimm, Lars Hedrich, Stefan Heinen, Eckhard Hennig, Hyun-Sek Lukas Lee, Wolfgang Nebel, Gregor Nitsche, Markus Olbrich, Carna Radojicic, Fabian Speicher

Abstract

Analog-/Mixed-Signal (AMS) design verification is one of the most challenging and time consuming tasks of todays complex system on chip (SoC) designs. In contrast to digital system design, AMS designers have to deal with a continuous state space of conservative quantities, highly nonlinear relationships, non-functional influences, etc. enlarging the number of possibly critical scenarios to infinity. In this special session we demonstrate the verification of functional properties using simulative and formal methods. We combine different approaches including automated abstraction and refinement of mixed-level models, state-space discretization as well as affine arithmetic. To reach sufficient verification coverage with reasonable time and effort, we use enhanced simulation schemes to avoid conventional simulation drawbacks.

Organisation(s)

Mixed-Signal Circuits Section

Type

Paper

Pages

1102-1111

No. of pages

10

Publication date

2016

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes