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Coverage-Directed Stimuli Generation for Characterization of RF Amplifiers

Muhammad Hassan; Daniel Große; Ahmad Asghar; Rolf Drechsler
In: 32. GI/GMM/ITG Testmethoden und Zuverlässigkeit von Schaltungen und Systemen (TuZ 2020). GI/GMM/ITG Workshop Testmethoden und Zuverlässigkeit von Schaltungen und Systemen (TuZ-2020), February 16-18, Stuttgart, Germany, 2020.

Zusammenfassung

Functional coverage allows to measure the progressin verification and as a consequence allows to ensure highverification quality. However, this requires significant manualeffort in particular to achieve high coverage.In this paper we propose a coverage-directed stimuli gen-eration approach for the characterization ofRadio Frequency(RF) amplifiers. An output coverage analysis in combination witherror calculation steers the stimuli generation towards coverageclosure. We provide a case study using three industrialLow NoiseAmplifiers(LNAs) to demonstrate the applicability and efficacyof our approach.

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