Design and Implementation a Hierarchical Co-Verification Platform for Gigabit Ethernet Controller of Multi-core Processor

摘要

With growing interconnection network technology, Ethernet MAC (Media Access Control) controller integrated in processor chip for their network services has become the trend, This paper studies the design and pre-silicon verification of multi-core processor' Ethernet controller, how to improve the verification efficiency? Test bench validity and completeness is the great challenge of verification work. This paper puts forward the method to generate hierarchical classification and management respectively on verification resources and test bench, proposes a hierarchical software and hardware co-verification platform to verify functionality and preliminary performance evaluation, which improves the efficiency of verification, and accelerates the verification cycle of the target chip, the chip is tape out now.