A Shift-left Approach in Qualification of Digital IPs for SoCs by Applying Advanced Automation and Data Analytics

In SoC product development process, Digital IP signoff is an important step. Also sometimes time consuming. Some of the signoff guidelines are: (a)Perform logical synthesis (b)Perform Linting (c) Low power Analysis (d)ATPG goal check etc. In an industrial product development environment, there are lot of products (SoC) get developed concurrently in tight schedule. Also, the future roadmap shows surge in demand for SoC(s). We needed to develop a scalable, modern, data driven automation which not only should expedite the Digital IP signoff to Sub-System/SoC but also creates a standardized pluggable interface to apply different shift-left methodologies easily to improve the quality of the integration.