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Formal Hardware Verification

Methods and Systems in Comparison

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  • This book presents various approaches to formal hardware verification with an emphasis on approaches that could be turned into actual verification systems.
  • The theoretical foundations of the various methods and systems are provided and their applicational power is examined by application to a common set of circuits.

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1287)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Symbolic trajectory evaluation

    • Scott Hazelhurst, Carl-Johan H. Seger
    Pages 3-78
  3. Automated verification with abstract state machines using multiway decision graphs

    • E. Cerny, F. Corella, M. Langevin, X. Song, S. Tahar, Z. Zhou
    Pages 79-113
  4. Design verification using Synchronized Transitions

    • Jørgen Staunstrup
    Pages 114-155
  5. Hardware verification using PVS

    • Mandayam Srivas, Harald Rueß, David Cyrluk
    Pages 156-205
  6. Verifying VHDL designs with COSPAN

    • Kathi Fisler, Robert P. Kurshan
    Pages 206-247
  7. The C@S system: Combining proof strategies for system verification

    • Klaus Schneider, Thomas Kropf
    Pages 248-329
  8. Appendix: The common book examples

    • Thomas Kropf
    Pages 330-348
  9. Back Matter

About this book

This state-of-the-art monograph presents a coherent survey of a variety of methods and systems for formal hardware verification. It emphasizes the presentation of approaches that have matured into tools and systems usable for the actual verification of nontrivial circuits. All in all, the book is a representative and well-structured survey on the success and future potential of formal methods in proving the correctness of circuits. The various chapters describe the respective approaches supplying theoretical foundations as well as taking into account the application viewpoint. By applying all methods and systems presented to the same set of IFIP WG10.5 hardware verification examples, a valuable and fair analysis of the strenghts and weaknesses of the various approaches is given.

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