Formal Verification: An Essential Toolkit for Modern VLSI Design

Formal Verification: An Essential Toolkit for Modern VLSI Design, Second Edition presents practical approaches for design and validation, with hands-on advice to help working engineers integrate these techniques into their work. Formal Verification (FV) enables a designer to directly analyze and mathematically explore the quality or other aspects of a Register Transfer Level (RTL) design without using simulations. This can reduce time spent validating designs and more quickly reach a final design for manufacturing. Building on a basic knowledge of SystemVerilog, this book demystifies FV and presents the practical applications that are bringing it into mainstream design and validation processes. New sections cover advanced techniques, and a new chapter, The Road To Formal Signoff, emphasizes techniques used when replacing simulation work with Formal Verification. After reading this book, readers will be prepared to introduce FV in their organization to effectively deploy FV techniques that increase design and validation productivity. Covers formal verification algorithms that help users gain full coverage without exhaustive simulation Helps readers understand formal verification tools and how they differ from simulation tools Shows how to create instant test benches to gain insights into how models work and to find initial bugs Presents insights from Intel insiders who share their hard-won knowledge and solutions to complex design problems INDICE: 1. Formal verification: From dreams to reality2. Basic formal verification algorithms3. Introduction to systemverilog assertions4. Formal property verification5. Effective FPV for design exercise6. Effective FPV for verification7. FPV Apps for specific SOC problems8. Formal equivalence verification9. Formal verification's greatest bloopers: The danger of false positives10. Dealing with complexity11. The Road to Formal Signoff12. Putting it All Together13. Your new FV-aware lifestyle

• ISBN: 978-0-323-95612-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 508
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés