Verification Plans: The Five-Day Verification Strategy for Modern Hardware Verification Languages

1 Plan, Plan, Plan.- Verification.- General Specifications.- Transposition.- Verification Systems.- Why Have A Plan.- Same Page, Same Direction.- Overall Approach.- Logistics.- Divide and Conquer.- Effort Assessment.- Battle Choice.- The Plan.- 2 Shotgun Verification.- HDL vs HVL.- Schematics to Hdl.- HDL to HVL.- HVL Plan.- HVL Gone Bad.- HVL Benefits.- The New Midset: Shotguns and Peashooters.- Three Enabling Verification Methodologies.- Generation: Flow.- Checking.- Coverage.- Coverage Percentage.- Bottomline.- 3 Getting Started.- Preliminaries: Greasing the Skids.- Preliminaries: The Bigwigs.- Preliminaries: Information Input.- Preliminaries: The Game Plan.- Preliminaries: Be Smart, Be Sneaky.- The When.- The When: Meetings.- The Who: Verification Team.- The Who: Others.- The Who: Reality Check.- Day One: Brain Dump, Brain Fill.- Day One: The Past.- Day One: The Future.- Day One: The Overall Approach.- Day One: To Do List, Stuff to Talk About, Questions to Ask.- Day One: Extras.- Day One: Gotchas.- Day One: Assignments.- Final Thought.- 4 Day in the Life.- DITL.- Resistance.- Verification and DITL.- How To: People.- How To: Audience.- How To: Y Tree or Flow Chart.- How To: Data.- How To: Format.- Day Two: Getting started.- Day Two: DITL.- Day Two: Verification System Architect.- Day Two: Generation.- Day Two: To Do List, stuff to talk about, questions to ask.- Day Two: Extras.- Day Two: Gotchas.- Day Two: Assignments.- Final Thought.- Chapters 5 Layers and Phases.- Introduction:.- Verification Components.- Existing Code.- Layers and Phases: An Introduction.- Day Three: Getting Started.- Day Three: Layers.- Day Three: Phases.- Day Three: Integrating Layers and Phases.- Day Three: Results.- Day Three: To Do List, stuff to talk about, questions to ask.- Day Three: Extras.- Day Three: Gotchas.- Day Three: Assignments.- Final Thought.- 6 Format.- Audience.- Goal, Purpose, And Flow.- Size and Breakout Documents.- Entry Tools.- Entry Tool: Text Editor.- Entry Tool: Microsoft Word.- Entry Tool: Microsoft Excel.- Entry Tool: Framemaker.- Other Word Processors.- Entry Tool: HTML.- Charts and Graphs.- Bubble Diagrams.- Flowcharts.- Y Diagrams.- Tables.- UML Diagrams.- Which Do I Choose?.- Final Thoughts.- Chapter7 Information Extraction.- Philosophy.- The Nature of Prediction.- Talking Heads and Silent Types.- Structure in Chaos.- Reverse osmosis.- Paradoxical Solutions.- Gut vs fuzzy.- Spiral convergence.- Yellow-Sticky Method.- YSM Procedure.- YSM: Is something burning?.- YSM Gotchas.- YSM Assignment.- Final Thoughts.- 8 Breakout Documents.- Day Four, Day Five, And Beyond.- System Admin Breakout Document Content.- Directory Structure.- File Naming Conventions.- Code Templates/Guidelines.- Revision Control System.- Bug Tracker.- Scripts.- Web Pages and Groups.- Verification Support or Side Tools.- Simulator Interfaces.- Compute Farms and Licenses.- Base Code.- System Admin Breakout Document Summary.- Checkers Breakout Document Content.- Checkers Breakout Document Summary.- Scoreboards Breakout Document Content.- Scoreboards Breakout Document Summary.- Functional coverage breakout document content.- Functional Coverage Breakout Document Summary.- SEQ and Scenarios Breakout Document Content.- SEQ and Scenarios Breakout Document Summary.- Schedule Breakout Document Content.- Schedule Plan Breakout Document Summary.- Other Documents.- Final Thoughts.- 9 Wrap Up.- What about the Features?.- When to use directed?.- Are there other 5-Day Paths that Yield Success?.- Where do I get a Soft Copy?.- Was this Book Plug to get Consulting Gigs?.- Is it Ok to use other Formats?.- Why do you spell your Name Wrong?.- Contact Information.- Appendix Intro.- Appendix A Day in the Life Document Examples.- A1: Usbnode.- A2: Coolswitch.- Appendix B Main Plan Document Usbnode Example.- Appendix C Breakout Document Examples.- C1: System administration.- C2: CHECKER Document.- C3: scoreboard Document.- C4: Coverage Document.- C5: Scenario and Sequence Doc