Room: Ilha de Santo Aleixo
Date and Time: Friday, 11:00-12:00

Verification and Test Challenges in SoC Designs

César Augusto Dueñas M.
Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
Jaguariúna, Brazil

Abstract

SoC (System-on-Chip) designs have introduced several new challenges for the functional
verification and test disciplines. Besides the ever-growing functional complexity, we need to
manage from several clock domains and low-power modes to all sorts of IP blocks like processors,
complex peripherals, analog functions and different kinds of embedded memories. The reuse of 3rd
party IP may help accelerating the design of new products, but it usually does not help the
functional verification and it may even add to its complexity. Also, the same die may be used in
several packages with different number of pins and bond-out options. This presentation will discuss
these and other verification and test challenges. It also describes what tools, techniques and
methodologies the industry is currently using to cope with them, and finalizes outlining some
future directions.