System and method for predicting lwarx and stwcx instructions in test pattern generation and simulation for processor design verification and validation
    3.
    发明授权
    System and method for predicting lwarx and stwcx instructions in test pattern generation and simulation for processor design verification and validation 失效
    用于预测处理器设计验证和验证的测试模式生成和仿真中的lwarx和stwcx指令的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07689886B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-03-30

    申请号:US11779390

    申请日:2007-07-18

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    摘要: A system and method for predicting lwarx (Load Word And Reserve Index form) and stwcx (Store Word Conditional) instruction outcome is presented. A lwarx instruction establishes a reservation on an address/granule, and a stwcx instruction targeted to the same address/granule “succeeds” only if the reservation for the granule still exists (conditional store). Since the reservation may be lost due to situations such as, for example, a processor (or another processor) executing a different lwarx or ldarx instruction (or other mechanism), which clears the first reservation and establishes a new reservation, the invention described herein builds test patterns in a manner that ensures, stwcx success and failure predictability. As a result, stwcx instructions are testable during test pattern execution.

    摘要翻译: 提出了一种用于预测lwarx(Load Word And Reserve Index form)和stwcx(Store Word Conditional)指令结果的系统和方法。 lwarx指令在地址/粒子上建立一个预留,只有当粒子的预留仍然存在(条件存储)​​时,针对相同地址/粒子的stwcx指令才会成功“成功”。 由于可能由于诸如执行不同的lwarx或ldarx指令(或其他机制)的处理器(或另一个处理器)的情况而丢失预留,这清除了第一个预留并建立了新的预留,因此本文描述了本发明 以确保stwcx成功和失败可预测性的方式构建测试模式。 因此,stwcx指令在测试模式执行期间是可测试的。

    System and method for testing SLB and TLB cells during processor design verification and validation
    5.
    发明授权
    System and method for testing SLB and TLB cells during processor design verification and validation 有权
    在处理器设计验证和验证期间测试SLB和TLB单元的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07797650B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-14

    申请号:US11853163

    申请日:2007-09-11

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50 G06F9/44 G06F13/10

    CPC分类号: G06F11/26

    摘要: A system and method for re-executing a test case and modifying the test case's effective addresses, effective segment identifiers (ESIDs), and virtual segment identifiers (VSIDs) in order to fully test a processor's SLB and TLB cells is presented. A test case generator generates a test case that includes an initial set of test case effective addresses, an initial set of ESIDs, and an initial set of VSIDs. The test case executor uses an effective address arithmetic function and a virtual address arithmetic function to modify the test case effective addresses, the ESIDs, and the VSIDs on each re-execution that, in turn, sets/unsets each bit within each SLB and TLB entry. In one embodiment, the invention described herein sequentially shifts segment lookaside buffer entries, whose ESIDs are in single bit increments, in order to fully test each ESID bit location within each SLB entry.

    摘要翻译: 提出了一种用于重新执行测试用例并修改测试用例的有效地址,有效段标识符(ESID)和虚拟段标识符(VSID)的系统和方法,以便对处理器的SLB和TLB单元进行全面测试。 测试用例生成器生成测试用例,其包括测试用例有效地址的初始集合,初始的ESID集合和初始的VSID集合。 测试用例执行器使用有效的地址算术函数和虚拟地址算术函数来修改每个重新执行的测试用例有效地址,ESID和VSID,而每个SLB和TLB中的每个位都设置/取消每个位 条目。 在一个实施例中,本文描述的本发明顺序地移动其ESID以单位增量的段后续缓冲区条目,以便完全测试每个SLB条目内的每个ESID比特位置。

    System and method for using resource pools and instruction pools for processor design verification and validation
    6.
    发明授权
    System and method for using resource pools and instruction pools for processor design verification and validation 有权
    使用资源池和指令池进行处理器设计验证和验证的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07752499B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-07-06

    申请号:US11853189

    申请日:2007-09-11

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/263

    摘要: A system and method for using resource pools and instruction pools for processor design verification and validation is presented. A test case generator organizes processor resources into resource pools using a resource pool mask. Next, the test case generator separates instructions into instruction pools based upon the resources that each instruction requires. The test case generator then creates a test case using one or more sub test cases by assigning a resource pool to each sub test case, identifying instruction pools that correspond the assigned test case, and building each sub test case using instructions included in the identified instruction pools.

    摘要翻译: 介绍了一种使用资源池和指令池进行处理器设计验证和验证的系统和方法。 测试用例生成器使用资源池掩码将处理器资源组织到资源池中。 接下来,测试用例发生器根据每个指令需要的资源将指令分离为指令池。 然后,测试用例生成器使用一个或多个子测试用例,通过向每个子测试用例分配资源池来创建测试用例,识别与分配的测试用例对应的指令池,以及使用所述指令中包含的指令来构建每个子测试用例 游泳池。

    System and method for increasing error checking performance by calculating CRC calculations after multiple test patterns for processor design verification and validation
    7.
    发明授权
    System and method for increasing error checking performance by calculating CRC calculations after multiple test patterns for processor design verification and validation 有权
    通过在多个测试模式进行处理器设计验证和验证后计算CRC计算来提高错误检查性能的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07739570B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-06-15

    申请号:US11779385

    申请日:2007-07-18

    IPC分类号: G01R31/28 G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/261 G06F11/263

    摘要: A system and method to reduce verification time by sharing memory between multiple test patterns and performing results checking after each test pattern executes one time is presented. A test pattern generator generates multiple test pattern sets, each of which including multiple test patterns. Each test pattern set is executed by a corresponding thread/processor until each test pattern included in the test pattern set has executed at least once. After all test patterns have executed at least once, a test pattern executor performs a memory error detection check to determine whether the system is functioning correctly. Since the invention described herein waits until all test patterns have executed before performing a memory error detection check, less time is spent on memory error detection checks, which allows more time to execute test patterns.

    摘要翻译: 提出了通过在多个测试模式之间共享存储器并且在每次测试模式执行一次之后执行结果检查来减少验证时间的系统和方法。 测试模式生成器生成多个测试模式集,每个测试模式集包含多个测试模式。 每个测试模式集由相应的线程/处理器执行,直到测试模式集中包含的每个测试模式至少执行一次。 在所有测试模式至少执行一次之后,测试模式执行器执行内存错误检测检查,以确定系统是否正常运行。 由于本文描述的发明等待直到所有测试模式在执行存储器错误检测检查之前已经执行,所以花费更少的时间用于存储器错误检测检查,这允许更多的时间来执行测试模式。

    System and method of testing using test pattern re-execution in varying timing scenarios for processor design verification and validation
    8.
    发明授权
    System and method of testing using test pattern re-execution in varying timing scenarios for processor design verification and validation 有权
    使用测试模式重新执行的系统和方法在不同的时序情况下进行处理器设计验证和验证

    公开(公告)号:US07647539B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-01-12

    申请号:US11779395

    申请日:2007-07-18

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/261 G06F11/263

    摘要: A system and method processor testing using test pattern re-execution is presented. A processor re-executes test patterns using different timing scenarios in order to reduce test pattern build time and increase system test coverage. The invention described herein varies initial states of a processor's memory (cache, TLB, SLB, etc.) that, in turn, varies the timing scenarios when re-executing test patterns. By re-executing the test patterns instead of rebuilding new test patterns, verification quality is improved since more time is available for execution, verification and validation. In addition, since the test patterns result in the same final state, the invention described herein also simplifies error checking.

    摘要翻译: 介绍了使用测试模式重新执行的系统和方法处理器测试。 处理器使用不同的时序场景重新执行测试模式,以减少测试模式构建时间并提高系统测试覆盖率。 本文描述的本发明改变了当重新执行测试模式时处理器的存储器(高速缓存,TLB,SLB等)的初始状态,其进而改变了定时场景。 通过重新执行测试模式,而不是重建新的测试模式,验证质量得到改善,因为有更多的时间可用于执行,验证和验证。 此外,由于测试模式产生相同的最终状态,本文所述的发明也简化了错误检查。

    System and Method for Efficiently Handling Interrupts
    9.
    发明申请
    System and Method for Efficiently Handling Interrupts 审中-公开
    有效处理中断的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090070570A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-12

    申请号:US11853208

    申请日:2007-09-11

    IPC分类号: G06F9/30 G06F11/263

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2236

    摘要: A system and method for including independent instructions into a test case for intentionally provoking interrupts that may be used in conjunction with an instruction shuffling process is presented. A test case generator builds a test case that includes intentional interrupt instructions, which are constructed to intentionally provoke an interrupt, such as an instruction storage interrupt (ISI), a data storage interrupt (DSI), and alignment interrupt, and/or a program interrupt (PI). When a processor executes the test case and invokes an interrupt to an interrupt handler, the interrupt handler does not resolve the interrupt, but rather increments an instruction address register or a link register and resumes test case execution at an instruction subsequent to the instruction that caused the interrupt.

    摘要翻译: 提出了一种用于将独立指令包含在测试用例中以有意引发可能与指令混洗过程结合使用的中断的系统和方法。 测试用例生成器构建测试用例,其包括有意中断指令,其被构造为有意地引起中断,例如指令存储中断(ISI),数据存储中断(DSI)和对齐中断和/或程序 中断(PI)。 当处理器执行测试用例并对中断处理程序调用中断时,中断处理程序不会解析中断,而是在指令之后的指令之后递增指令地址寄存器或链接寄存器并恢复测试用例执行 中断。