Nursultan Kabylkas

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
0000-0002-6590-169XORCID · reported

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Electronic design automation · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Electronic design automation › hardware/software co-design
co-simulation
0.512021
Effective Processor Verification with Logic Fuzzer Enhanced Co-simulation · MICRO 2021
Electronic design automation › hardware verification and test
hardware verification
0.512021
Effective Processor Verification with Logic Fuzzer Enhanced Co-simulation · MICRO 2021
Electronic design automation › hardware verification and test
processor verification
0.512021
Effective Processor Verification with Logic Fuzzer Enhanced Co-simulation · MICRO 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2021 Effective Processor Verification with Logic Fuzzer Enhanced Co-simulation
abstract
The study on verification trends in the semiconductor industry shows that the design complexity is increasing, fewer companies achieve first silicon success and need more spins before production, companies hire more verification engineers, and 53% of the whole hardware-design-cycle is spent on the design verification [18]. The cost of a respin is high, and more than 40% of the cases that contribute to it are post-fabrication functional bug exposures [16]. The study also shows that 65% of verification engineers’ time is spent on debug, test creation, and simulation [17]. This paper presents a set of tools for RISC-V processor verification engineers that help to expose more bugs before production and increase the productivity of time spent on debugging, test creation and simulation. We present Logic Fuzzer (LF), a novel tool that expands the verification space exploration without the creation of additional verification tests. The LF randomizes the states or control signals of the design-under-test at the places that do not affect functionality. It brings the processor execution outside its normal flow to increase the number of microarchitectural states exercised by the tests. We also present Dromajo, the state of the art processor verification framework for RISC-V cores. Dromajo is an RV64GC emulator that was designed specifically for co-simulation purposes. It can boot Linux, handle external stimuli, such as interrupts and debug requests on the fly, and can be integrated into existing testbench infrastructure with minimal effort. We evaluate the effectiveness of the tools on three RISC-V cores: CVA6, BlackParrot, and BOOM. Dromajo by itself found a total of nine bugs. The enhancement of Dromajo with the Logic Fuzzer increases the exposed bug count to thirteen without creating additional verification tests.
Nursultan Kabylkas, Tommy Thorn, Shreesha Srinath, Polychronis Xekalakis, Jose Renau
MICRO1