SoC Verification Software – Test Operating System

solutions to its customers. SOC's are typically built from IBM and customer cores, often containing an embedded processor. The SOC business is competitiveand time-to-market pressures are increasing. The chips are becoming more complex-driving enhancements in system programming and verification techniques, reusability, and simulation environments. This paper discusses techniques that the WWDC is using in system verification software development. It outlines a strategy of providing reusable test programs for verification utilizing customer reusable low-level device drivers and simulation speedup techniques that enable effective system level verification and coverage. The goal is to dramatically reduce system-on-chip development time and cost, while improving overall quality. I