Verification for Gbit Ethernet design. Industry: Data communication.

Challenge:
Develop a verification environment for functional tests of a Media Access Controller for Gbit Ethernet. The verification environment must be able to implement the Univeristy of New Hampshire (UNH) InterOperability Laboratorys test suite for Gbit Ethernet.

• Description:
• * Develop a script language for traffic patterns
• * Implement script parser for integration in Verilog
• * Develop a test environment in Verilog
• * Develop a test suite for UNH-IOL-tests
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• Tools, methods and technology:
• * Verilog, Verilog PLI
• * Perl, Python, C, Make
• * UNH-documentation of test suite
• * IEEE-standard for Gbit Ethernet
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• Resultats:
• A test envinronment for automatic testing of Gbit Ethernet-MAC conformance to the standard according to the UNH-IOLs test suite