Design and development of a versatile hardware test platform

Abstract

Nowadays in the whole process around the design of an integrated circuit, verification and testing are the most time consuming tasks. Verify simple ICs is not a very complex task, but as the complexity increases, this critical task takes more and more time allowing for easily three or four times design time. Test platforms plays an important role in the whole process. Versatility is probably the most important feature of all. If the test platform can be re-used to test different ICs, the effect of the initial investment on its development in the cost of the verification process can be reduced. This project will be focused on the design and development of a versatile test platform.