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Record W2951398768 · doi:10.1109/fccm.2019.00052

Sonar: Writing Testbenches through Python

2019· article· en· W2951398768 on OpenAlex

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Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEmbedded Systems Design Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer sciencePython (programming language)ModelSimProgramming languageVerilogEmbedded systemCompilerVHDLField-programmable gate array

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Design verification is an important though time-consumingaspect of hardware design. A good testbench should supportperforming functional coverage of a design by making it easy to implement tests and determine which tests are being performed. However, for complex designs, creating and main-taining effective testbenches can take increasing amounts of time away from actual design. A further complication is there may be two development flows: conventional hardware written in a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog orVHDL and high-level synthesis (HLS). In the HLS approach, the hardware is specified in a higher-level language (HLL) and then converted to an HDL through HLS tools. In this flow, testbenches for the design are written in the same HLLand cosimulation is used to verify the generated HDL. Due totool restrictions, cosimulation may not always work. In VivadoHLS [1] for example, the design must contain control signals to define when to start and stop the module or the initiation interval for new data must be one cycle. Without cosimulation, the user must write an HDL testbench manually in addition to a testbench in the HLL for preliminary verification. To simplify writing testbenches, we present Sonar: an open-source Python library to write cross-language testbenches. From a common source script, Sonar can generate testbenches written in SystemVerilog (SV) and C++. These files can then be imported into standard simulation tools such as ModelSim[2] or Vivado HLS and run. The use of Python makes it easy to extend Sonar with higher layers of abstraction for testbenches and integrate it with other software platforms.Sonar is available at https://github.com/UofT-HPRC/sonar.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.670
Threshold uncertainty score0.800

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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