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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2001
Harry D. Foster, Plano, TX (US);
Robert John Porter, Celina, TX (US);
Nathan Dirk Zelle, The Colony, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for automatic verification of a test plan for a semiconductor device. The device is specified by a hardware description language (HDL) model or a formal description language model derived from the HDL model. A test plan tool and database are provided to capture test item definitions and identifications and a monitor generator is provided to generate monitors for detecting functional coverage during verification. An evaluator is provided to compare verification-events with test-plan items, to determine test item completeness and to update the test plan database.