Practical Design Verification

Improve design efficiency and reduce costs with this practical guide to formal and simulation-based functional verification.

Dhiraj K. Pradhan (Author), Ian G. Harris (Author)

9780521859721, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 June 2009

288 pages
25.4 x 17.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.72 kg

Improve design efficiency and reduce costs with this practical guide to formal and simulation-based functional verification. Giving you a theoretical and practical understanding of the key issues involved, expert authors including Wayne Wolf and Dan Gajski explain both formal techniques (model checking, equivalence checking) and simulation-based techniques (coverage metrics, test generation). You get insights into practical issues including hardware verification languages (HVLs) and system-level debugging. The foundations of formal and simulation-based techniques are covered too, as are more recent research advances including transaction-level modeling and assertion-based verification, plus the theoretical underpinnings of verification, including the use of decision diagrams and Boolean satisfiability (SAT).

1. Model checking and equivalence checking M. Fujita
2. Transaction level system modeling D. Gajski and S. Abdi
3. Result checking, monitors and assertions H. Foster
4. System debugging strategies W. Wolf
5. Test generation and coverage metrics M. Sonza Reorda, G. Squillero and E. Sanchez
6. System C and Vera in a verification flow S. Verma and I. G. Harris
7. Decision diagrams for verification M. Ciesielski, D. K. Pradhan and A. M. Jabir
8. Boolean satisfiability and EDA applications J. Marques-Silva.

Subject Areas: Circuits & components [TJFC], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electrical engineering [THR], Engineering: general [TBC]