EDN

Verifying Configurable Verification Interfaces Using OCP

The Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a synchronous socket interface specification that is widely used in the semiconductor industry today for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The flexible nature of the ...
EDN

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Verifying your Configurable OCP Interfaces

The Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a core-centric protocol that comprehensively describes the system level integration requirements of intellectual property (IP) cores. The flexible nature of the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Interface DRC Can Streamline Chip-Level Interface Physical Verification

In most design companies, the chip-level physical implementation teams responsible for design floorplanning in place and route (P&R) environments also manage top-level physical verification from the ...
Design-Reuse

OCP Interface for SoC - Verifying the Implementation of Embedded Processors

Toshiba Semiconductor Company decided to widely adopt OCP as the host interface for in-house IP cores. OCP, which is standardized by OCP-IP, is the specification standard host interface for these ...
Design-Reuse

Verification Planning for Core based Designs

Verification planning is an important and integral part of verification, irrespective of the size of the system. About 70% of the design cycle time is spent on verification; with proper verification ...