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- Patent Title: Implementing automated memory address recording in constrained random test generation for verification of processor hardware designs
- Patent Title (中): 在受限随机测试生成中实现自动存储器地址记录,以验证处理器硬件设计
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Application No.: US13789177Application Date: 2013-03-07
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Publication No.: US09251023B2Publication Date: 2016-02-02
- Inventor: Craig T. Atherton , Avishai Fedida , Olaf K. Hendrickson , Oz Hershkovitz
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Joan Pennington
- Main IPC: G06F19/00
- IPC: G06F19/00 ; G06F11/263

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing automated memory address recording in constrained random test generation for verification of processor hardware designs. A test generation program includes a built in feature to keep track of storage addresses used and to make the addresses available to the test definition. This built in feature of a constrained random test generator allows storage addresses used in the past to be accessed by the current instruction generation eliminating the requirement of deliberately establishing target addresses first. This allows separate test events to interact with the same storage addresses without having to write a special test.
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