Cadence enables Renesas to improve the system-level
verification process, reducing the number of hours spent on
test scenario generation by up to 90 percent
SAN JOSE, Calif.,
March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence Design Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Renesas has used the
Cadence® Perspec™ System Verifier to verify
its new micro-controller unit (MCU) design for internet of things
(IoT) applications. The Perspec System Verifier enabled Renesas to
improve the system-level verification process, which reduced the
number of engineering hours spent on test scenario generation by up
to 90 percent when compared with its previous approach. For
more information on the Cadence Perspec System Verifier, please
visit www.cadence.com/go/perspecren.
The Renesas MCUs have more IP blocks and complex subsystems than
existing designs, with thousands of combinations of potential
access conflicts found in those designs. The previous Renesas
approach involved a manual process for creating use-case test
scenarios, which was very time-consuming due to the large number of
combinations that needed to be verified. By replacing its legacy
process with the Perspec System Verifier, Renesas achieved the
benefits of an efficient, algorithm-based system-level verification
solution that enabled the automatic generation of complex test
scenarios.
After an intensive evaluation using several production designs,
Renesas confirmed that the Perspec technology was easy to deploy
and that it integrated seamlessly with its existing testbench
environment without any additional configurations. It enabled the
generation of C code tests directly from Unified Modeling Language
(UML) diagrams, which helped reduce human errors. Running on the
Cadence Incisive® Enterprise Simulator and the Cadence
Palladium® Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform, it offered
a top-down verification process for system specification that
improved reusability as the design specifications changed.
"The Perspec System Verifier was the most practical system
verification solution for our advanced MCU designs because of its
automated test scenario generation capability," said Toshinori
Inoshita, senior manager, Elemental Technology Development Div. 1,
Renesas System Design Co., Ltd. "Through our evaluation, we found
that the Perspec technology easily detected issues caused by
complex combinations of power mode settings and transitions. The
technology can help us dramatically improve productivity and
deliver our designs to IoT application developers much faster.
We're also planning to deploy the Perspec technology for our new
design projects."
The Perspec System Verifier is a software-driven system-on-chip
(SoC) verification solution. It improves SoC quality and saves time
by reducing development effort for complex SoC-level use cases,
creating coverage-driven automation of system use-case generation,
and shrinking the time required to reproduce, debug and fix complex
SoC-level bugs. Additionally, it provides a portable stimulus
solution by running tests on any logic simulator, emulator, FPGA
prototype or silicon.
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