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Case Study
 
ASIC Co-verification and HdS development
 
 
The customer

A Leading European Telecom Equipment Vendor

 
The challenge
Business: As this was the first project for HdS development in ASIC co-verification area, it was very critical from Wipro’s perspective to grow further in this area.
  Project Management: Following factors made the project management very challenging:
Coordination with multiple, geographically scattered teams of customer.
Major changes in requirements during design and implementation: The ASIC specifications were not frozen by customer when Wipro kicked-off the project, the project experienced major changes in the requirements.
Major changes in schedule: Since the ASIC design was going on in parallel with customer, there were major changes faced in schedule. This required a frequent and quick scheduling of the activities.
Technical: During the project cycle, Wipro’s team faced following major technical challenges:
The ITU body had not frozen the standard for DMT based VDSL. This triggered frequent changes in the design specification of ASIC.
As Wipro’s team was developing the Co-verification suite in parallel to the ASIC design, major changes in requirement cropped up.
Module testing was quite challenging as the test-suite involves interaction with the Hardware that is still being designed. To overcome this, Wipro suggested and used Simulation models specifically developed for VDSL ASIC to carry out the Module level testing. Also Wipro performed stub testing to verify the logical flow.
 
The solution
The project was carried out in 2 phases.
During Phase 1, Wipro was involved in:
Test Suite for Functional co-verification of DiVA blocks. It covers the tests to verify the design of 20 different blocks within DiVA.
A set of Hardware Access Layer functions to be used by Test Suite. Later this set also serves as API for the DiVA.
Test segments for Traffic Tests and Interface Tests in VDLT board, included the test functions to check the functionalities of the board.
HAL support for VDLT board, included the set of library functions for accessing various devices on the board e.g. SPI, ATM Processor etc.
Control-E Driver for VDLT board. A protocol used for communication between the on board processor and DiVA.

The Test suite was developed to verify the design of 20 different clocks within the ASIC. It includes the Functional testing and Performance Testing.

During Phase-2 of the project Wipro developed test suite for Performance Testing. Performance Test suite involved integrating functionalities of all the DiVA blocks and verifying the capability of the DiVA against the design specification.
This Phase involved:
Test Suite for Performance verification of DiVA blocks. It covered the tests to verify the performance of DiVA when the high traffic is passed.
A set of Hardware Access Layer functions to be used by Test Suite. Later this set also serves as API for the DiVA.

The test suites and drivers developed during the project were used to co-verify the ASIC.

Measurable Results
Wipro provided the feedback on design defects to ASIC design team during Module Testing. This helped in achieving the first sample rollout of ASIC with Zero Defect.

Other Business/Technical Benefits
The successful rollout of the DiVA in 1st sample itself helped customer in meeting the business milestone of introducing the next generation DSLAM. This created a reputation of Wipro in this relatively new domain.

 

 
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