Kumar S Vadhri

US Patent:

20060271822, Nov 30, 2006

Filed:

May 26, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/138734

Inventors:

Rahul Pal - Santa Clara CA, US
Kumar Vadhri - San Jose CA, US
Gulam Dastagir - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714030000

Abstract:

A method, a system, and an apparatus for quantification of the quality of diagnostic software by applying a coverage tool are provided, wherein the diagnostic software is used for testing a computing system. The method involves executing the diagnostic software in an Integrated Circuit (IC) verification environment. The diagnostic software is executed by a Virtual Computer-processing Unit (V-CPU), which models (Central Processing Unit) CPU of the computing system to be tested.