Adopting Accellera's Portable Stimulus Standard: Early Development and Validation Using Virtual Prototyping
Affiliation Type:
Industry
Keywords:
Portable Test and Stimulus Standard, PSS, Virtual Prototype, Virtual Platform, Accellera
Abstract:
With increasing complexity of the SoCs, traditional approach of verification is not feasible to meet the strict time-to-market windows. Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) provides the methodology to abstract the test intent to make the tests easily portable to various verification levels like at IP, sub-system, post-silicon etc. But, the adoption of PSS methodology poses its own challenges regarding development and validation of PSS model and implementation APIs. In addition, the availability of the qualified PSS model at early stage of the verification effort is a challenge. In this paper, we discuss how we used Virtual Prototyping(VP) for early development and validation of PSS models for faster and productive PSS adoption.
Track ID:
4.3
Track Name:
Applications of the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard