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Coverage-Driven Verification: Design Space
Design Space for Coverage-Driven Verification.
Design space
Design Space for Coverage-Driven Verification is anchored on Risk-weighted closure across functional coverage, assertion coverage, code coverage, and bug escape trend.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.
Trade latency and throughput against power and area.
Prefer architecture options with clear software contract impact.
Quantify extension-profile cost before enabling by default.
Keep bring-up and validation ownership explicit.
Trend lens
diagram
BEFORE / AFTER TREND - Coverage-Driven Verification
Risk-weighted closure across functional coverage, assertion coverage, code coverage, and bug escape trend.
^
| o target band
| o after fix + reruns
| o
| o baseline (failing)
+--------------------------------------------------> iteration
capture issue isolate mechanism close + monitor
Use this view to confirm the gain is causal and stable across seeds.