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by Ram Narayan, Oracle Labs
Project RAPID is a hardware-software co-design initiative in Oracle Labs that uses a heterogeneous hardware architecture combined with architecture-conscious software to improve the energy efficiency of database-processing systems. This article, adapted from a paper we presented at DVCon 2014, describes how formal methods went from being used opportunistically to a central place in the verification methodology of the RAPID SoC. Though not without a learning curve, formal did help the Oracle team achieve its verification goals of finishing on schedule and achieving first pass silicon success.
The initial RAPID verification plan largely relied on a constrained-random simulation environment developed using UVM.
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