Overview
- FPV methods - presented conceptually
- Architecting assertion suites with System Verilog Assertions
- Formal verification coverage
- Consistency issues in formal specifications
- Design Intent Coverage
- Intelligent test generation from formal specifications
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Integrating formal property verification (FPV) into an existing design process raises several interesting questions. Have I written enough properties? Have I written a consistent set of properties? What should I do when the FPV tool runs into capacity issues? This book develops the answers to these questions and fits them into a roadmap for formal property verification – a roadmap that shows how to glue FPV technology into the traditional validation flow. A Roadmap for Formal Property Verification explores the key issues in this powerful technology through simple examples – you do not need any background on formal methods to read most parts of this book.
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"This book is a "must-read" for anyone who needs a broad and deep understanding of assertion-based verification technology and methodology. It gives an in-depth overview of the logic behind, and algorithms for, reasoning about design behavior using assertions. The book also presents advanced methods for checking consistency and coverage of an assertion-based specification, for maintaining completeness of a specification as it is refined, and for leveraging assertions for automatic test generation in constrained random simulation.
Detailing both established practice and recent developments, "A Roadmap for Formal Property Verification" is a valuable reference for insight into both the present and the future of assertion-based verification." (Erich Marschner, Senior Architect, Systems and Functional Verification, Cadence Design Systems, and Co-Chair, Accellera Formal Verification Technical Committee (FVTC)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
The author leads the Formal Verification Group at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~pallab/forverif.html). He has collaborations with leading companies, including Intel, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductors, General Motors, Interra Systems and Virtio Corp, on developing formal methods for design verification. The author is a senior member of IEEE.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Roadmap for Formal Property Verification
Authors: Pallab DasGupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4758-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4757-2Published: 05 July 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7185-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4758-9Published: 19 January 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 252
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Logic Design, Electrical Engineering, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages