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Chapter 14. Coverage-Driven Functional Verification

Traditional verification techniques did not include coverage measurement as a key component until the later stages of the project cycle. Coverage measurement is applied only after the testbench and the design are mature. Coverage measurement is used as a checklist item at the end of the project. With e, coverage measurement is now an integral part of the verification methodology. This integration enables new methodologies that can dramatically increase coverage quality and greatly decrease the number of simulations required to achieve such coverage. This chapter focuses on the coverage-drivencoverage-driven functional verification methodology.

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