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Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2022
Applicant:

Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hillel Mendelson, Melbourne, AU;

Tom Kolan, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/27 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/27 (2013.01); H01L 22/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method including: providing a test template for a hardware system-under-test comprising one or more execution threads, wherein the test template comprises a branching instruction to a predetermined shared memory address accessible by at least some of the one or more execution threads; generating and storing, at the predetermined shared memory address, a sequence of instructions which conform to the test template; building, based, at least in part, on the test template, an executable image of a hardware exerciser, wherein the hardware exerciser is adapted to control a test cycle of the hardware system-under-test, and wherein the test cycle comprises at least generation and execution of a test; and executing the executable image of the hardware exerciser by at least a first execution thread of the one or more execution threads of the hardware system-under-test.


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