Hardware Accelerated Functional Verification of Processor

Functional verification belongs among the current verification approaches. Functional verification checks the correctness of the implementation of the system, due to its specification. The weakness of the functional verification approach is time consumption caused by slow software simulation of implicitly parallel hardware systems. This paper presents a solution for using a hardware accelerated functional verification of the processor. The introductory chapters form the theoretical basis for the following chapters, that include a choice of solutions, an analysis, a design of a verification environment and implementation details. The conclusion includes tests of the final product, evaluation of the results and the future work perspectives