SoC Design Verification - What is SOC Verification
- 1. SoC Design Verification COE 838: Systems-on-Chip Design 1
- 2. What is SoC Design Verification? ● Design Verification is the process of checking that a given design correctly implements the specification. ● The largest task in SoC development that has the biggest impact on the key business drivers: quality, schedule, design to market and cost. ● Verification team to Design team ratio ranges from 2:1 to 3:1 ● > 70% development cycle is dedicated to verification. ● A diverse domain/field with endless strategies/techniques to sign-off (finalize) the chip. ● Every design needs verification - need for highly skilled design verification engineers to meet the challenges of the state-of-the-art technological innovations. 2
- 3. Verification Development Cycle Time 3
- 4. SoC Design/Verification in Industry ● For Example: Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm are “Chip and SoC Makers” ● They make SoCs for living. ● Their SoCs are ranging in all computational applications. ● CPU, GPU, and all SoC elements that we can observe in: Enterprise servers, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Smart Phones, Laptops, Desktops, Gaming Desktops. Game consoles such as Xbox and Play-station. Discrete Graphics Cards. 4
- 5. Verification Group in the SoC Developer - AMD ● RTG “Radeon Technologies Group” design and verify the AMD dGPU… ● dGPU : Discrete Graphics Processing Units ● Graphics in advanced applications of daily usage: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Gaming consoles/stations, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.. ● Compute graphics - a parallel processing computational engine convenient for certain applications than a typical sequential CPU…. 5
- 6. What is an SoC * A system on a chip or system on chip (SoC or SOC) is an integrated circuit (also known as an "IC" or "chip") that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic systems. * It may contain digital, analog, mixed, and often radio-frequency functions all on a single chip. * SoCs are very common in mobile computing market due to low power consumption. * Main applications are the area of embedded systems. 6
- 7. SoC is too complex! 7
- 8. Industry Always Look for Verification Engineers 8
- 10. Verification Strategies ● Functional Verification, Power Verification, Performance Verification ● Stimulus Generation ● Simulation based verification ● Directed testing ● Random and Constraint-Random Verification ● Formal Verification ● Verification Methodologies: UVM FPGA-based Verification Emulation Verification tools and Infrastructure. 10
- 11. Verification Engineers and their Time Consumption? 11
- 12. Mix & Match Verification Efforts and Trends! 12
- 13. Acceleration is the Key Emulation & FPGA Verification 13
- 16. SoC Design Projects Typical Schedules 16
- 17. How many times would it take to launch a product? Spins Headache… 17