Project Grant 2434247

This $599,493 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop a holistic framework for efficient and comprehensive validation of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs across the entire product lifecycle. The key objectives are to:

1. Facilitate efficient pre-silicon full system validation using a communication-centric methodology.
2. Enable learning of SoC communication models from validation traces to enable analysis and debugging.
3. Leverage communication models and machine learning to enhance observability and post-silicon debugging.

The award, granted to the University of South Florida, focuses on overcoming limitations in existing SoC verification and validation methods, with the goal of providing greater assurance in deployed SoC designs for critical applications. The project integrates novel solutions to tie validation activities across pre-silicon and post-silicon stages, leveraging deep sequence modeling and pattern mining techniques. No subawards are planned under this grant, which has an award date of January 15, 2025 and an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2027.