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Post-silicon debug (or post-silicon validation) is one of the important phase of the system design cycle. This is performed to capture the escaped design bugs from the pre-silicon verification phase. The major challenge associated with the post-silicon debug is the very limited observability and controllability inside the chip during the debug. Therefore, a few supporting…
Modern day Syetem-on-Chips are so complex that pre-silicon verification is no more the sufficient step to capture all the design bugs. Even with sophisticated verification process, achieving 100% coverage is difficult. Due to this, few bugs escape from the pre-silicon verification till the actual product on silicon. So, now-a-days industries perform post-silicon validation (commonly known…
Both Verification and Validation checks for the correctness of the design. These design steps try to detect and localize functional bugs in the system. While pre-silicon verification runs the test cases on the software prototypes of the design on the simulator, post-silicon validation is executed on a few initial hardware prototypes of the design on…
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