Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

David Larsen

Peter Lapidus

Christian Haufe

Ingo Kuehn

In a transaction-based verification environment for complex semiconductor devices, enhanced verification efficiency may be achieved by providing a transaction to machine code translator and an appropriate interface that enables access of the translated machine code instruction by a CPU under test. In this manner, transaction-based test environments may have a high degree of re-usability and may be used for verification on block level and system level.

Transaction based verification of a system on chip on system level by translating transactions into machine code

A processing system comprising: i) a read-only memory (ROM) that stores original ROM code; ii) a custom array that stores replacement ROM code; and iii) control logic that receives an incoming ROM address and a read request signal generated by a source device. The control logic, in response to receipt of the incoming ROM address and the read request signal, compares the incoming ROM address to a patched address associated with the ROM. If a match occurs, the control logic outputs to the custom array a translated address associated with the patched address. The custom array then outputs a first line of replacement ROM code associated with the translated address.

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