Breker

PORTABLE STIMULUS
FPGA / SAFETY / ASIC / FV / HW-V

Breker solve challenges across the functional verification process for large, complex semiconductors. This includes streamlining UVM-based testbench composition and execution for IP block verification, significantly enhancing SoC integration and firmware verification with automated solutions and providing general test content portability and reuse.

Given the continual increase in IC design size and complexity, as well as specific advances—such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), open processor instruction sets, and safety / security requirements—traditional verification methods no longer scale to modern needs. As such, the verification market is constantly evolving. Test content and testbench production has experienced the most radical evolution of all of the verification technologies over the last 20 years, and it is still this aspect of the process that causes development teams the greatest challenges. It is this area on which Breker has focused its attention, producing highly effective test suite synthesis solutions that have gained widespread adoption.

Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of verification synthesis solutions that leverage SystemUVM, C++ and Portable Stimulus, a standard means to specify reusable verification intent. It is the first company to introduce graph-based verification and the synthesis of high-coverage test sets based on AI planning algorithms. Breker’s Test Suite Synthesis and TrekApp library allows the automated generation of high-coverage, powerful test cases for deployment into a variety of UVM, SoC and Post-Silicon verification environments. Case studies that feature Altera (now Intel), Analog Devices, Broadcom, IBM, Huawei and other companies leveraging Breker’s solutions are available on the Breker website. Breker is privately held and works with leading semiconductor companies worldwide.

FirstEDA is proud to be the sole distribution and support channel for Breker in Europe.

“After an extensive evaluation, we chose Breker to help to ensure our design’s coherency… Ease of use and extremely fast setup, covering a broad aspect of verification from simple workload to complex scenarios that includes Dekker and Atomics tests.”

– JianYing Peng, CEO of Nuclei System Technology

The Breker tool suite and TrekApps have been proven in production at many leading semiconductor companies worldwide, earning a reputation for dramatic verification schedule reduction in advanced development environments. Breker’s solutions enable design managers and verification engineers to realize measurable productivity gains through GRAPH-based scenario description, speed coverage closure by PORTING the same tests across verification platforms, and easily SHARE verification knowledge.

Breker Tool Suite

TrekUVM

TrekUVM uses the same scenario model format to generate Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) test cases for transactional testbenches, all but eliminating the notorious complexity of UVM sequence authoring.

TrekSoC

TrekSoC helps customers develop intuitive models based on the PSS to describe the verification space, and then use these models to automatically generate SoC test cases including stimulus, expected results and coverage detail.

TrekSoC-Si

TrekSoC-Si enables all of the testbench capability contained in TrekUVM and TrekSoC to be applied to hardware verification solutions including Emulation, Prototyping Systems and to the final device, post-fabrication.

TrekApps

  • The ARMv8 TrekApp provides a broad range of ARMv8 integration verification functions.
  • The Cache Coherency TrekApp verifies system-level coherency in a multiprocessor SoC.
  • The Power Management TrekApp automates the verification of power domain shutdown and bring up.
  • The RISC-V TrekApp generates system integration tests for Open Architecture RISC-V processors.
  • The Security TrekApp synthesizes test content to verify IC protected regions.

TrekDAE

The Design Analysis Environment user interface provides unique visual graph construction, graph visualization, and multi-threaded runtime test inspection capabilities. It operates across all of the Breker tool suite and TrekApps, enabling a consistent use and feel for the tools. The new visual graph editor allows for fast scenario construction and comprehension.

Scenario Modeling

The entire tool suite makes use of graph-based scenario models created using either the new Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard DSL or C++ formats, or coded in native C++. The models may also be entered using the Breker visual editor, or generated from one of the TrekApps. These modeling options provide easy methods to build powerful and complete models of verification intent.