An Assembler Driven Verification Methodology (ADVM)

TL;DR

This paper introduces ADVM, a verification methodology that facilitates rapid porting of tests across chip card projects, significantly reducing development time and effort.

Contribution

The paper presents ADVM, a novel assembler driven verification approach that streamlines test porting and minimizes code refactoring in chip verification.

Findings

Enabled rapid test porting to new targets

Reduced verification development time

Minimized code refactoring efforts

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of an assembler driven verification methodology (ADVM) that was created and implemented for a chip card project at Infineon Technologies AG. The primary advantage of this methodology is that it enables rapid porting of directed tests to new targets and derivatives, with only a minimum amount of code refactoring. As a consequence, considerable verification development time and effort was saved.