Behavioral synthesis of property specification language (PSL) assertions

In recent years more and more system designers discovered the importance of Assertion Based Verification (ABV) in coverage driven, functional simulations to keep pace with ever-increasing complexity of modern systems on chip (SoC). Using assertions plays a central role in the design-for-verification (DFV) methodology which is widely used in the industry. This paper presents a method that enables the major advantages of ABV beyond the borders of synthesis. By the use of the Property Specification Language (PSL) a way for the behavioral synthesis of properties will be shown. Furthermore the paper explains the integrated simulation of these hardware assertions by the aid of a hardware accelerator and cosimulator. Overall, the presented approach can decrease the time to market while raising the quality for complex SoCs at the same time.