Behaviour Driven Development for Hardware Design

@article{Diepenbeck2018BehaviourDD,
  title={Behaviour Driven Development for Hardware Design},
  author={Melanie Diepenbeck and Ulrich K{\"u}hne and Mathias Soeken and Daniel Gro{\ss}e and Rolf Drechsler},
  journal={IPSJ Trans. Syst. LSI Des. Methodol.},
  year={2018},
  volume={11},
  pages={29-45}
}
Hardware verification requires a lot of effort. A recent study showed that on average, there are more verification engineers working on a project than design engineers. Hence, one of the biggest challenges in design and verification today is to find new ways to increase the productivity. For software development the agile methodology as an incremental approach has been proposed and is heavily used. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) as an agile technique additionally enables a direct link to… 
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