STEPS OF VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION ROUTE AIMED AT OBTAINING THE SOC MODEL ABLE TO PERFORM TARGET TASKS AND ALGORITHMS WITH SPECIFIED CHARACTERISTICS

In order to ensure the convergence of SoC design based on its performance on real applications the entire route of SoC development starting with the architectural design to the qualification tests for topological netlist should be focused on the early localization of performance issues and the confirmation of consumer characteristics of SoC before its tapeout. The article describes some of the details of of SoC verification flow, based on the convergence of performance requirements. Also the results of the work of tools used in research of SoC and its components at various abstraction levels are presented. Verification flow is based on the usage of templated test environments and unified performance analysis tools. Method of description of input stimuluses based on graphs is proposed. This method allows recovering the scenarios which discovered errors and simulateing of real traffic. Steps of system verification and validation route, oriented to the SoC model capable to perform targeted objectives and algorithms with preset characteristics are proposed. An example of a system verified by principle of performance metrics control is given.