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an: 05875470
au: Adir, Allon; Nahir, Amir; Ziv, Avi; Meissner, Charles; Schumann, John
ti: Reaching coverage closure in post-silicon validation.
so: Barner, Sharon (ed.) et al., Hardware and software: verification and
    testing. 6th international Haifa verification conference, HVC 2010,
    Haifa, Israel, October 4‒7, 2010. Revised selected papers. Berlin:
    Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-19582-2/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer
    Science 6504, 60-75 (2011).
py: 2011
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19583-9_10
ab: Summary: Obtaining coverage information in post-silicon validation is a
    difficult task. Adding coverage monitors to the silicon is costly in
    terms of timing, power, and area, and thus even if feasible, is limited
    to a small number of coverage monitors. We propose a new method for
    reaching coverage closure in post-silicon validation. The method is
    based on executing the post-silicon exercisers on a pre-silicon
    acceleration platform, collecting coverage information from these runs,
    and harvesting important test templates based on their coverage. This
    method was used in the verification of IBM’s POWER7 processor. It
    contributed to the overall high-quality verification of the processor,
    and specifically to the post-silicon validation and bring-up.
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