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Introduction
The openness of RISC-V allows customizing and extending the architecture and microarchitecture of a RISC-V based core to meet specific requirements. This appetite for more design freedom is also shifting the verification responsibility to a growing community of developers. Processor verification, however, is never easy. The very novelty and flexibility of the new specification results in new functionality that inadvertently creates specification and design bugs.
During the development of an average complexity RISC-V processor core, you can discover hundreds or even thousands of bugs. As you introduce more advanced features, you introduce new bugs that vary in complexity. Certain types of bugs are too complex for simulation to
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