Frontgrade Technologies and Breker Verification Systems, whose portfolio addresses issues throughout the functional verification process for large, complex semiconductors, confirmed that their RISC-V functional verification solutions were vital for the verification of the NOEL-V, one of Frontgrade Gaisler’s fault-tolerant RISC-V processor IP cores.
With its high performance and fault-tolerant design, Frontgrade Gaisler’s NOEL-V processor is designed for high-reliability applications. NOEL-V, which is based on the RISC-V architecture, provides customization choices that enable SoC designers to develop solutions that are suited to their particular requirements.
The GR765, Frontgrade’s next-generation radiation-hardened space microprocessor, is powered by this CPU.
In addition to its existing test suites and generators for instruction set architecture testing, which are part of its RISC-V SystemVIPs, Breker expanded testing to target advanced, system-level integrity.
With its test suite synthesis technology applied across the verification pipeline from simulation to emulation and prototyping to post-silicon validation, it offers coverage by promoting cross-functional stress verification and unanticipated corner case identification.
Breker’s RISC-V SystemVIP and Test Suite Synthesis technologies are essential to Frontgrade Gaisler’s development program because of their ultra-high verification coverage.
Breker offers test suites for thorough RISC-V core and SoC verification, ranging from sophisticated system integrity validation to in-depth microarchitectural analysis.
Leadership Comments
“The development of Frontgrade Gaisler’s IP cores is guided by a philosophy that does not tolerate design issues,” notes Jan Andersson, Director of Engineering at Frontgrade Gaisler. “This demands the most robust verification environment, something Breker’s verification solution has contributed to improve, with its broad range of tests and in-depth corner case coverage.”
“We are delighted to work with Frontgrade Gaisler to achieve their extreme coverage goals and eliminate unpredictable corner cases, necessary given the extreme environments in which their devices are deployed,” says David Kelf, Breker’s CEO. “Our RISC-V test suites have become an essential component in over 20 commercial entities and other organizations development flows, providing us with unique experience of the numerous unusual verification issues inherent in these processors.”
