Comprehensive Functional Verification: The Complete Industry Cycle

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Part I: Introduction to Verification

Chapter 1: Verification in the Chip Design Process 1.1 Introduction to Functional Verification 1.2 The V erification Challenge 1.3 Mission and Goals of Verification
1.4 Cost of Verification 1.5 Areas of Verific ation beyond the scope of this book 1.6 The Verification Cy cle: A Structured Process 1.7 Summary 1.8 Exer cises

Chapter 2: Verification Flow 2.1 Verification Hierarchy 2.2 Strategy of Verification< BR id=‘CRLF’>2.3 Summary 2.4 Exercises

Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Simulation Based Verification
3.1 Basic Verification Environment: A Test Bench 3.2 Observation Points: Black-box, White-box and Grey-box verification 3.3 Assertion Based Verification
An overview 3.4 Test benches and Testing Strategies 3.5 Summary