Constructucting method of VIP and VMM based SoC verification environment

VIP and VMM-compliant code are reusable both during a project and on later designs. This paper describes the constructing method of Synopsys's VIP and VMM based SoC verification environment, and then takes the Interrupt Controller module as an example to present the designing method of derived environment. The functional coverage is 100% after simulating 90s. Finally, a traditional SoC verification environment was constructed for comparison. The comparison is based on the verification of Interrupt Controller module in the two environments. The result indicates that the traditional verification environment expends 2X code and 2.7X runtime compared to another. Thus it can be seen that the VIP and VMM based SoC verification environment presented in this paper is not only more flexible and reusable, but also helps achieve higher verification productivity while writing less code. Now the verification environment has been used in project.