Stanford Seminar - QED and Symbolic QED- Dramatic Improvements in SoC Validation and Debug

Explore a Stanford seminar on QED (Quick Error Detection) and Symbolic QED, focusing on dramatic improvements in System-on-Chip (SoC) validation and debugging. Delve into the challenges posed by increasing IC complexity and the critical importance of post-silicon validation. Learn about QED techniques, including Duplicate & Check, Diversity-Enhanced QED, and Proactive Load & Check, and their impact on improving coverage and error detection latency. Examine real-world applications of QED in Intel® Core™ i7 hardware, addressing difficult logic bugs and power management issues. Investigate the concept of Symbolic QED and its advantages over traditional Bounded Model Checking (BMC). Gain insights into bug localization techniques and the universal property of QED checks. Understand how these advanced methodologies contribute to more efficient and effective SoC validation processes in the face of escalating system-level complexities.