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Course contents

  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Paths
  • Concept Map
  • Meet DCRouter
  • Glossary
  • Part 0: What Verification Is8
  • Part 1: What Can Go Wrong11
  • Part 2: Specifications as Checkable Rules8
  • Part 3: Observability and Controllability7
  • Part 4: Stimulus11
  • Part 5: Checking11
  • Part 6: Coverage10
  • Part 7: Formal and Simulation10
  • Part 8: Verification Levels and Reuse8
  • Part 9: Planning and Risk9
  • Part 10: Emulation and Prototyping8
  • Part 11: Post-Silicon Validation8
  • Part 12: Bug Economics8
  • Part 13: Debug7
  • Part 14: Sign-Off7
  • Part 15: Verification in Context8
  • Part 16: Case Studies5
  • Part 17: Capstones5
    • Write the Plan
    • Hunt the Zoo
    • Review a Plan
    • The Sign-Off Board
    • Debug the Regression
  • Part 18: Interview Preparation6
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‹First Principles of Verification Strategy
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  2. First Principles of Verification Strategy
  3. Part 17: Capstones

Part 17 · Capstones · All levels

Part 17: Capstones

Can you apply all of it? Write and defend a complete verification plan.

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    Part 17 answers: Can you apply all of it?

    Five exercises that use the whole course: write a plan from a specification, find all 24 DCRouter bugs at the lowest cost, review a flawed plan, sit on a sign-off board, and debug a night of regression failures.

    After this part you can

    • Write and defend a complete verification plan.

    • Choose the cheapest mix of techniques that finds every planted bug.

    • Make and defend a tape-out decision from evidence.

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    17.1

    Write the Plan

    S · Senior

    Ready

    17.2

    Hunt the Zoo

    S · Senior

    Ready

    17.3

    Review a Plan

    P · Principal

    Ready

    17.4

    The Sign-Off Board

    P · Principal

    Ready

    17.5

    Debug the Regression

    S · Senior

    Ready

    Every lesson in this part is ready. Work through them in order: each one sets up the problem the next one solves.

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    • How to Use This Course
    • Reading Paths
    • Concept Map