About the Book
I have been working in co-verification since 1996. I have had the
benefit and privilege of working for multiple companies and on many
different products and approaches on how to verify embedded systems.
Over this time I found many engineers lacking basic (and advanced)
understanding of how chips and systems with microprocessors and
software interact with hardware. I have always found a great need to
explain these interactions and how to understand them by using
techniques to verify hardware and software before a system is committed
to fabrication. During this time the use of co-verification has become
more common, but there are still many more engineers that can benefit
from it. There are also many engineers and sales people working in the
EDA industry that could use a book to really understand the products
they are selling and supporting.
Nearly two years ago I got a call from Elsevier asking if I wanted to
write a book. I decided it was time to just write it all down. I have
always wanted to teach young engineers, but the requirement for a PhD
will probably prohibit me from ever working in a university so this was
the next best thing. Thanks to the monopolistic practices of Northwest
Airlines a large chunk of the book was written in the Denver airport
waiting for snow storms and delayed connections on my favorite
airlines, Frontier (I still can't remember what animal was on the
airplane tail when the kids ask when I finally reach home). The rest
was whatever spare time I could get in hotels and in the middle of the
night while everybody slept.
At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco this year I was
again amazed at how many engineers show up for a session on how to
better use a logic analyzer to debug hardware and software in lab
setting and how few show up for co-verification topics. My hope
is this book will advance the general knowledge of the engineering
community and make co-verification a better understood and more
commonly used verification technique. I'll know it is a success when
the room is full at ESC for co-verification and mostly empty for yet
another talk about scope probes and logic analyzers.
Enjoy the book.
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