NVMe Solid State Drive verification solution using HW Emulation and Virtual Device Technologies

Abstract

Hardware-assisted verification, or emulation, delivers the capacity and performance for extremely fast, full System on Chip (SoC) testing. Emulation enables realistic software execution, longer test cases and more tests to be run in less time. In doing so, it allows more design requirements to be covered while more bugs are uncovered. Recently, introducing Virtual Devices methodology expanded the landscape beyond these two fundamental benefits in terms of what can be accomplished virtually with an emulator. As a result, leading electronic-design companies want to take advantage of the benefits of both megahertz verification and a fully virtual accelerated verification flow. In this paper, we present a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Solid State Drive (SSD) verification solution that has been built using these two enabling technologies.