Solar System and Verification IP

The right process for a verification IP development is planning, development and closure. These steps are compared with the planets of a solar system. Each step in VIP development is assigned with a planet as explained below.

Figure 1: Solar System

Solar System	Verification IP
Sun	DUT
Mercury	Verification Plan
Venus	Agents Development
Earth	Testbench Development
Mars	Assertions and Functional Coverage Development
Jupiter	Test Cases Development
Saturn	Regression and Debug
Uranus	Fixing Testbench or Test cases
Neptune	Coverage Closure
Pluto	Release – User guide, Product Documents etc...

Table 1: Verification IP compared with Solar System

Further to above planets there are scary looking asteroids in solar system which are treated as bugs. These bugs may be DUT bugs or Testbench bugs.

                                        Figure 2:  Verification IP Development Steps