Length : 2 days
Course Description
This course is intended for users of JasperGold® wishing toimprove Formal Verification Performance by using advanced techniques. There isa 50/50 split between lectures and hands-on labs which allows the user to gainexperience of the advanced techniques discussed in the course. Advancedproperty development techniques are shown with numerous real-life code examplesutilizing techniques such as non-determinism, relaxing checks, reducing formalcomplexity in general and for liveness properties and fairness constraints,data tagging and more. In addition, how to detect, debug and fixover-constraining arising from conflicts and deadends are discussed. The course also covershow to make abstractions and reductions of the DUT to improve formalperformance and how to use tool features to understand where design complexityis coming from and hence address how to reduce it. Finally, the course teaches methods of how to couple a designabstraction with a specialized checker to achieve better performance. Implementation of differentkinds of formal scoreboards are discussed: for example, CAM tables and FuzzyScoreboards.
Learning Objectives
After attending the course, you will be able to:
- Write simple and efficient assertions with a small complexity footprint
- Write effective deadlock assertions with both safety and liveness semantics
- Recognize and deal with deadends and conflicts in a formal environment
- Identify the different complexities in a formal testbench
- Apply abstraction and reduction techniques to deal with the complexities of a formal testbench
- Create formal friendly checkers using checker abstraction techniques
- Apply checker abstraction techniques to deliver an efficient Formal Scoreboard
Software Used in This Course
Software Release(s)
JASPER1909
Modules in this Course
- Advanced Property Development
- Non-determinism
- Data tagging
- Relaxed checks
- Forward progress
- Liveness
- Conflict & Dead-End Detection and Debug
- Design Abstraction and Reduction
- Abstraction vs. Reduction
- Identify complexity hot spots
- Case split
- Design reductions
- Cutpoints and abstract models
- Hot-starting: Initial-value Abstractions (IVAs)
- Coupling Design & Checker Abstraction
- Checker Abstraction
- Coupling abstractions with checkers
- Location-based Abstractions
- Signature-based Abstractions
- Combining Location and Signature methods
- Formal Scoreboards
Audience
Verification Engineers and Designers who wish to use advanced techniques in order to improve Formal Verification Performance
Prerequisites
You must have:
- 3 months' experience with SVA and JasperGold.
Or, you must have completed the following course:
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