Research Article
Simulation-Based Hardware Verification with a Graph-Based Specification
Table 3
Code coverage comparison between the semiformal method and CRT method.
| Design | Vector | Code coverage | The semiformal method | CRT method | BC% | EC% | TC%/FC% | BC% | EC% | TC%/FC% |
| FPU | 100 | 62.4 | 44.2 | 74.3/- | 57.8 | 40.8 | 68.2/- | 400 | 79.6 | 67.9 | 91.2/- | 68.5 | 58.2 | 84.0/- | 900 | 95.6 | 79.5 | 95.1/- | 89.4 | 74.7 | 92.4/- |
| MAC | 100 | 69.7 | 56.4 | 72.8/- | 64.7 | 51.7 | 70.1/- | 400 | 82.1 | 77.2 | 89.6/- | 78.2 | 69.3 | 83.2/- | 900 | 97.0 | 86.8 | 92.1/- | 95.1 | 84.1 | 88.7/- |
| DMA | 900 | 87.6 | 85.7 | -/92.4 | 75.1 | 70.4 | -/89.8 | 2100 | 92.8 | 92.3 | -/95.1 | 85.9 | 89.5 | -/94.9 | 4800 | 96.2 | 100 | -/100 | 96.2 | 98.7 | -/100 |
| XMC | 900 | 90.8 | 86.2 | -/93.5 | 86.2 | 81.5 | -/91.4 | 2100 | 94.7 | 96.4 | -/96.2 | 92.0 | 93.9 | -/95.7 | 4800 | 97.3 | 100 | -/100 | 97.3 | 100 | -/100 |
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