Statement coverage is n/a after running and merging testcase coverage results

Hello Peter. Can you be a bit more precise about how your simulation is instrumented for coverage? By default the statement coverage is not enabled, and Xcelium uses something called block coverage instead. Block coverage represents each atomic group of statements in the code. Statement coverage is an optional refinement to block coverage, which counts how many statements are in each block of code. To enable statement coverage, you would need to pass the -covfile switch to the elaboration step, and the file pointed to by -covfile needs to have the line "set_statement_scoring" in addition to any other instrumentation commands.

I would recommend you to study the Coverage Overview on the Cadence support site (requires you to login with your corporate email address).

Hi Stephen, thanks for your reply. In the meantime I found a solution via a coverage file which I connect via the -covfile option. In this ccf file the following statements were added:

set_statement_scoring
select_coverage -all
set_branch_scoring

This seems to work, at least I can see for statement coverage figures when generating a html report. However, I do not see statement coverage when I am in the IMC gui, in one way or another the contents is still n/a so my next question is why I cannot see the statement coverage figures in the gui.

I will take a look at the "Coverage Overview" you mentioned, hopefully I can pick up more background information.

Peter, I'm glad you found the set_statement_coverage option.

I've attached a screenshot from IMC showing how you can configure the view to show statement coverage information; on the bottom right pane I circled the "attributes" tab, if you click that you'll get a table of attributes, if you search in there using the search box just below the column headings, you can quickly find "Statement Covered" and double-click it to add it to the main Verification Hierarchy pane. Once you're happy with the settings there, you can use the Views toolbar button (where it says "All_Metrics" in the screenshot to open the drop-down menu and save your view for future use.

I did notice that the bottom right pane where it shows a summary, is missing the statement coverage, I'm not sure why that is! I tend not to use that pane myself...

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the additional info, I will give it a try and see how I come.

Hi Stephen, just a remark about the debugging visibility of the "Statement Analysis" in the drop-down menu after I added  the "Statement Covered column" into the main menu window. Currently "Statement Analysis" is greyed out in the drop-down menu (module selected contains statements). Also when I select block analysis for that module I see that "Statement" is greyed out. So how can I debug Statement analysis within the gui?