Methods, systems, and computer readable media for data center switching network path emulation in an electronics design automation (eda) environment

A system for impairments generation in an electronics design automation (EDA) test environment, the system comprising:

• a test platform including at least one processor and a memory;
• a traffic generator implemented by the at least one processor for generating test packets;
• a virtual input/output (virtIO) network driver implemented by the at least one processor for transmitting the test packets to an EDA emulator that emulates an electronics design under test and receiving packets from the electronics design under test;
• and
• an impairments module implemented by the at least one processor and between the traffic generator and the virtIO network driver for controlling impairments of the test packets transmitted to the EDA emulator and the packets received from the EDA emulator.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by a processor of a computer control the computer to perform steps comprising:

• generating, by a traffic generator in a test platform including the traffic generator, an impairments module, and a virtual input/output (virtIO) network driver, test packets and transmitting the test packets to the impairments module;
• controlling, by the impairments module, an impairment of the test packets;
• transmitting, by the impairments module, to the virtIO network driver, and after controlling the impairment of the test packets, the test packets;
• and
• transmitting, by the virtIO network driver and to an electronics design automation (EDA) emulator, the test packets.