Xcelium Fault Simulator Training

Length: 1.5 Days (12 hours)

Become Cadence Certified

Course Description

The Xcelium^™ Fault Simulator is part of an end-to-end flow that includes the Functional Safety Verification capability in the Cadence^® vManager^™ safety solution, allowing for seamless reuse of functional and mixed-signal verification environments to accelerate the time to develop safety verification. The Xcelium Fault Simulator operates within the Xcelium Simulator compiled engine, boosting instrumentation performance significantly over the traditional Verifault-XL engine. This course explains the Xcelium Fault Simulator tool in detail and further demonstrates with examples and labs how this tool could be used to:

• Invoke the elaborator and instrument faults according to a fault specification.
• Run a good simulation to generate reference values for fault simulation.
  • Additionally, you can specify strobe points to monitor explicit signals.
• Run one or more fault simulations with faults injected.
• Analyze the generated verbose reports.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the Functional Safety Technology
  •  Its importance, especially in the Auto industry
• Recognize the Functional Safety Standard ISO 26262
  • Different relevant parts of this standard with respect to Xcelium Fault Simulation
• Apply the Cadence Xcelium Fault Simulation Solution
  • Apply this solution through lab exercises to achieve Functional Safety

Software Used in This Course

• X450 Xcelium Safety

Software Release(s)

X450 and X401/410

Modules in this Course

• Overview of Cadence Software – XFS Solution
• What Is Functional Safety?
• Functional Safety Standard ISO 26262 – A Brief Overview
• Xcelium Fault Simulator and Its Modes
• Fault Types and Fault Metrics
• Elaboration and Fault Specification: Instrumenting the Faults
• Xcelium Fault Campaign Flow
  • Fault Strobing
  • JasperGold Functional Safety Verification App (FSV)
  • Xcelium Test-Based Fault Reduction
• Concurrent Fault Campaign Flow
• Reporting on Simulation Results
• Transient Fault Injection
• Debugging Fault Simulations

Audience

• Verification Engineers

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you need to have taken the following course: 

• Xcelium Simulator

You need to have:

• Knowledge of basic Functional Verification concepts
• Knowledge of creating testcases for running simulations and similar concepts
• Experience with running simulations using the Xcelium simulator

Related Courses

• Xcelium Simulator
• Metric-Driven Verification using Cadence vManager

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