Simulation Management

Summary

This chapter described how behavioral models can be used to accelerate the verification of a design project by improving simulation performance and parallelizing the verification effort. Behavioral models let system-level verification start sooner and be performed using regular tools and hardware platforms. To obtain all of these benefits from behavioral models, they must be written using skills and approaches different from RTL models.

This chapter showed how to manage simulations: from determining success or failure to configuration management to regression simulation. It is recommended that the output of simulation runs be parsed to determine if the response was as expected. The use of a configuration script is also recommended to remove the verification engineers from the details of a model structure and composition.