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EW23 RISC-V Theatre: Introduction to RISC-V Processor Verification

Embedded World 2023 - RISC-V Theatre Presentation:

The open RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is enabling a wide range of options on the design side, to completement this a number of options can be applied to the verification tasks, since a basic proof of concept prototype may not need all the quality checks as a high volume or high reliability application. This talk will review the 5 different simulation-based DV flows, ranging from simple signature-based comparisons for architectural validation to advanced ‘step-and-compare’ flows that support asynchronous events and debug.

Speaker:          Larry Lapides – Imperas Software


The video of this presentation is available on YouTube.

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Related Resources

There are many Imperas documents available. Some of them are accessed only from the Imperas User site and are available only to Imperas customers under license.

On the OVPworld website there are many documents that introduce the various APIs and technologies developed by Imperas and made available as part of Open Virtual Platforms. Click here for the OVPworld documentation list.

Publicly available Imperas documents:

RISC-V Custom Instruction Flow Application Note

Using OVP Fast Processor Models with OVPsim and other simulators

RISC-V Processor Verification: ImperasDV with Synopsys VCS and Verdi Application Note

Comments

  • Bill McSpadden, Principal VLSI Verification Engineer

    Seagate Technology

    The Golden RISC-V Reference Model was used as the “go/no-go” model to determine the RTL correct behavior with any discrepancies, bugs or issues with the design, tests, specifications, or test bench.

  • Manuel Andreu, Team Lead for Software Development

    Solectrix GmbH

    We were able to easily merge the Imperas simulator into our automated workflow on our build server for both unit and integration testing.  Running our tests with the production binaries on the simulator enabled us to find bugs that were not found when the software was cross compiled to the x86 Windows environment.