[sv-ac] RE: Mantis 2206

From: Korchemny, Dmitry <dmitry.korchemny_at_.....>
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 03:09:33 PST
Hi Jonathan,

This is indeed difficult and therefore I believe it should be considered
separately from the checker proposal. This is a reason I opened a
separate Mantis item. My primary intention was to document this request,
since there are people that would like to have this capability. As for
the actual solution, it depends on the committee and on the people who
want to champion this issue. I personally do not have a solution for it
that I could suggest right now.

Thanks,
Dmitry

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From: Jonathan Bromley [mailto:jonathan.bromley@doulos.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:00 PM
To: Korchemny, Dmitry; sv-ac@server.eda-stds.org
Subject: Mantis 2206

Dmitry,

Mantis 2206 raises the fascinating possibility that
assume directives could be used as constraints on
randomly-generated sequences of activity.

The idea that assume directives can be used to constrain
randomly generated stimulus is already mentioned briefly
in the LRM; it seems that the randomization of freevars
is related to this.  Are you aware of *any* tool that 
can do such a thing?  To me, it sounds difficult :-)

IEEE standards committees are not supposed to invent new
technology, so I suggest that this should be skipped 
unless there is some prior-art imlementation that could
be used as a guide.
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