Formal Verification of Circuits - Rilegato

Drechsler, Rolf

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 079237858X ISBN 13: 9780792378587

Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 2000

Riassunto

Formal verification has become one of the most important steps in circuit design. Since circuits can contain several million transistors, verification of such large designs becomes more and more difficult. Pure simulation cannot guarantee the correct behavior and exhaustive simulation is often impossible. However, many designs, like ALUs, have very regular structures that can be easily described at a higher level of abstraction. For example, describing (and verifying) an integer multiplier at the bit-level is very difficult, while the verification becomes easy when the outputs are grouped to build a bit-string. Recently, several approaches for formal circuit verification have been proposed that make use of these regularities. These approaches are based on Word-Level Decision Diagrams (WLDDs) which are graph-based representations of functions (similar to BDDs) that allow for the representation of functions with a Boolean range and an integer domain.
Formal Verification of Circuits is devoted to the discussion of recent developments in the field of decision diagram-based formal verification. Firstly, different types of decision diagrams (including WLDDs) are introduced and theoretical properties are discussed that give further insight into the data structure. Secondly, implementation and minimization concepts are presented. Applications to arithmetic circuit verification and verification of designs specified by hardware description languages are described to show how WLDDs work in practice.
Formal Verification of Circuits is intended for CAD developers and researchers as well as designers using modern verification tools. It will help people working with formal verification (in industry or academia) to keep informed about recent developments in this area.

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From the reviews:

"This monograph addresses the problem of formal verification for circuits using as a conceptual tool the Word-Level Decision Diagrams (WLDDs). ... The book offers a concise discussion of the field of WLDD-based formal verification of circuits. ... The book is written in a clear style and represents an easy-to-read introduction into the area of word-level decision diagrams." (Marius Zimand, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1062 (13), 2005)

Contenuti

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Notation and Definitions. 3. Decision Diagrams. 4. Theoretical Aspects of WLDDS. 5. Implementation of WLDDS. 6. Minimization of DDS. 7. Arithmetic Circuits. 8. Verification of HDLS. 9. Conclusions. References. Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kluwer Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 079237858X
• ISBN 13: 9780792378587
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 179
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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