Authors:    Mingsong Chen, Xiaoke Qin, Heon-Mo Koo, and Prabhat Mishra Publisher:   Springer, 2012 ISBN:   978-1-4614-1358-5 Contents:           Introduction         Modeling and Specification of SoC Designs         Automated Generation of Directed Tests         Functional Test Compaction         Property Clustering and Learning Techniques         Decision Ordering based Learning Techniques         Synchronized Generation of Directed Tests         Test Generation using Design and Property Decompositions         Learning-Oriented Property Decomposition Approaches         Directed Test Generation for Multicore Architectures         Test Generation for Cache Coherence Validation         Reuse of System-Level Validation Efforts         Conclusions

This book covers state-of-the art techniques for high-level modeling and validation of complex hardware/software systems, including those with multicore architectures. Readers will learn to avoid time-consuming and error-prone validation from the comprehensive coverage of system-level validation, including high-level modeling of designs and faults, automated generation of directed tests, and efficient validation methodology using directed tests and assertions. The methodologies described in this book will help designers to improve the quality of their validation, performing as much validation as possible in the early stages of the design, while reducing the overall validation effort and cost.