Method and apparatus for transaction recording and visualization

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at one or more computer systems, information generated in response to a simulation of a device under test with a test bench, the information comprising transactions and transaction passing and temporal relationships between multiple test bench components;
• generating, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a transaction database as a response to the received information;
• generating and displaying, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, an element of a sequence diagram that visually represents both a temporal sequence between two or more data elements of a transaction between at least two test bench components and a transaction passing sequence between each of the two or more data elements according to the transaction database;
• wherein a transaction represented by an element in the sequence diagram is selected from data passed between two sequencers and data passed between a sequencer and a driver.

A system for simulation of an integrated circuit and enabling the display of dynamic transaction data relationship of the Verilog source code comprising:

• a test bench for simulating transactions on a device under test;
• a transaction database generated as a response to the simulation, wherein the transaction database comprises transaction-specific data elements for a specific transaction between the test bench components;
• A hardware interface for interfacing the test bench and the device under test;
• A sequence generator adapted to extract and generate a sequence diagram from the transaction database;
• At least one view generator and
• A display device for displaying synchronized views of the simulation together with the sequence diagram.