Intended for hardware design engineers, this book introduces general verification techniques, compares them with formal verification techniques, and provides instructions for creating formal high level requirement. The authors discuss formal verification concepts for both applied Boolean and sequential verification, formal property checking, the process of creating a formal test plan, and state reduction techniques. The appendices list commonly used PSL statements for high level requirements and similar requirements specified in System Verilog syntax. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Formal verification is a powerful new digital design method. In this cutting-edge tutorial, two of the field's best known authors team up to show designers how to efficiently apply Formal Verification, along with hardware description languages like Verilog and VHDL, to more efficiently solve real-world design problems. Contents: Simulation-Based Verification * Introduction to Formal Techniques * Contrasting Simulation vs. Formal Techniques * Developing a Formal Test Plan * Writing High-Level Requirements * Proving High-Level Requirements * System Level Simulation * Design Example * Formal Test Plan * Final System Simulation
