Imperas solutions for early software development have never been more appropriate with development schedules more critical than ever. We believe that simulation-based verification is fast becoming an essential requirement in complex SoCs, and together with advanced debug and analysis tools for many-core and heterogeneous designs will greatly reduce development schedules for next generation devices.
Jingliang (Leo) Wang, Co-chair of the OpenHW Group Verification Task Group
Futurewei Technologies
The UVM SystemVerilog testbenches of the OpenHW Verification Task Group, which are publicly available, are well implemented to effectively support multiple RISC-V based 64-bit and 32-bit CPU cores. The common verification methodology shared by these testbenches does a good job in identifying issues and supporting the analysis and resolution.
The Imperas reference model incapsulated within the testbenches is a key component to enable the step-and-compare interactive checking approach for efficient error resolution.
