Functional validation of a processor design through execution of a suite of test programs is common industrial practice. In this paper, we develop a high-level architectural specification driven methodology for systematic test-suite generation. Our primary contribution is an automated test-suite generation methodology that covers all possible processor pipeline interactions. To accomplish this automation, we (1) develop a fully formal processor model based on communicating extended finite state machines, and (2) traverse the processor model for on-the-fly generation of short test programs covering all reachable states and transitions. Our test generation method achieves several orders of magnitude reduction in test-suite size compared to the previously proposed formal approaches for test generation, leading to drastic reduction in validation effort.
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