Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design

The need for formal methods for integrated circuit design.- Verification of all circuits in a floating-point unit using word-level model checking.- *BMDs can delay the use of theorem proving for verifying arithmetic assembly instructions.- Modular verification of multipliers.- Verification of IEEE compliant subtractive division algorithms.- Hierarchical verification of two-dimensional high-speed multiplication in PVS: A case study.- Experiments in automating hardware verification using inductive proof planning.- Verifying nondeterministic implementations of deterministic systems.- A methodology for processor implementation verification.- Coverage-directed test generation using symbolic techniques.- Self-consistency checking.- Inverting the abstraction mapping: A methodology for hardware verification.- Validity checking for combinations of theories with equality.- A unified approach for combining different formalisms for hardware verification.- Verification using uninterpreted functions and finite instantiations.- Formal verification of the Island Tunnel Controller using Multiway Decision Graphs.- VIS.- PVS: Combining specification, proof checking, and model checking.- HOL Light: A tutorial introduction.- A tutorial on digital design derivation using DRS.- ACL2 theorems about commercial microprocessors.- Formal synthesis in circuit design — A classification and survey.- Formal specification and verification of VHDL.- Specification of control flow properties for verification of synthesized VHDL designs.- An algebraic model of correctness for superscalar microprocessors.- Mechanically checking a lemma used in an automatic verification tool.- Automatic generation of invariants in processor verification.- A brief study of BDD package performance.- Local encoding transformations for optimizing OBDD-representations of finite state machines.- Decomposition techniques for efficient ROBDD construction.- BDDs vs. Zero-Suppressed BDDs: for CTL symbolic model checking of Petri nets.- HDL-based integration of formal methods and CAD tools in the PREVAIL environment.