Our customer is a US based company, an established world leader in design and manufacturing of communication infrastructure. This product is used for broadband services to fine-tune the bandwidth allocation to customers without service outage resulting in lower costs.

eInfochips’ Role:

• Understanding of system and study of functional specification of blocks
• Creating comprehensive Test Plans for the individual blocks
• Architecting verification environment (VE)
• Coding and integrating the VE using existing 'e' Verification Components (eVCs) like SONET and UPI.
• Verification at block level and mini chip level
• Analyzing functional and code coverage

How was this achieved?

eInfochips achieved this task with a team of five ASIC Verification engineers for duration of 6 months. The total effort was 28 man-months.

• SONET/SDH/OTN framer/mapper chip with virtual to contiguous concatenation conversion and reverse support
• Development of Verification environment for functional verification at the block level as well as mini chip level
• Use of SONET, UPI and Scoreboard eVCs in the Verification enviornment
• Tools: Specman, Modelsim
• Platform: Windows XP, Solaris, Linux

Conclusion:

• Reusable eVCs can help in expediting the verification process
• It is possible to develop reusable test cases that can be used at all levels of functional verification