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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 307-320


Automatic Simulation and Verification of Pipelined Microcontrollers


Ing-Jer Huang and Li-Rong Wang
Institute of Computer and Information Engineering 
National Sun Yat-Sen University 
Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C.


    This paper presents a methodology for automatic simulation and verification of pipelined microcontrollers. Using this methodology, we can generate the simulation for the instruction set architecture (ISA), abstract finite state machine (FSM) and pipelined register transfer level design and compare the simulation results across different levels quickly. We have implemented our method in the simulation and verification of a synthesized microcontroller HT_4 using our behavioral synthesis tool.


Keywords: functional verification, simulation, high level synthesis, microcontrollers, microprocessors

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