asureISG
T&VS Instruction Stream Generator
The asureISG tool from T&VS accelerates the completion of CPU code-coverage and helps discover bugs that often go unnoticed with traditional directed testing.
The tool includes support for:
- Event generation for mimicking complex system (e.g. sensor inputs)
- Random generation of structures (e.g., directed graphs)
- Developed in pure C++
- Directly generate:
- Directed instruction assembly
- Constrained Random instruction assembly
- Special scenarios to verify CPU performance and corner cases
- Generate cases with sequences, constraints and policies
- Generate performance monitoring instruction streams, including:
- Various kinds of inputs, resources, resource sharing, etc.
- Configure specialized streams for specific unit-level instruction verification
T&VS Extends CPU Verification Tool
The latest release of the T&VS CPU verification tool,?asureISG, packs a host of new Instruction Stream Generator features:
- Users can provide a randomization seed input and generate an instruction assembly
- ISG supports standard SPARCv8 ISA. Other CPU ISAs can be added and multiple CPUs can be supported
- User can define a valid memory locations and memory ranges for memory operations like load, store, other atomic operations, etc.
- User can provide a list of valid CPU programmable registers to use during instruction assembly generation
- User can generate a single assembly instruction or a pre-defined group of instructions with desired source and destination operands. Each instruction configuration has its own maximum limit of occurrences.
- User can generate a sequence of instructions with desired source and destination operands, each sequence entry governed by its own successive iteration limit value
- Instruction resources (operands) can either be fixed or defined as a range
- User can limit the maximum number of instructions to be generated by ISG