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 ...
EDN

The Challenge of Interface Verification

Designs in every industry segment are built around standard interfaces; you probably can't find a complex chip that does not have some sort of standard interface such as PCI, PCI Express, DDR-SDRAM, ...
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 ...
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

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 ...