Practical Design Verification

Improve design efficiency and reduce costs with this practical guide to formal and simulation-based functional verification.

Giving you a theoretical and practical understanding of the key issues involved, expert authors including Wayne Wolf and Dan Gajski explain both formal techniques (model checking, equivalence checking) and simulation-based techniques (coverage metrics, test generation).

You get insights into practical issues including hardware verification languages (HVLs) and system-level debugging. The foundations of formal and simulation-based techniques are covered too, as are more recent research advances including transaction-level modelling and assertion-based verification, plus the theoretical underpinnings of verification, including the use of decision diagrams and Boolean satisfiability (SAT).

• Provides system designers with the information needed to use different verification approaches in practice
• Takes the practical perspective of a user of verification tools rather than that of a developer
• Covers the foundations of formal and simulation-based techniques, as well as more recent research advances.

About the Author

Diraj K. Pradhan is Chair of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK. He previously held the COE Endowed Chair Professorship in Computer Science at Texas A & M University, also serving as Founder of the Laboratory of Computer Systems there. He has also worked as a Staff Engineer at IBM, and served as the Founding CEO of Reliable Computer Technology, Inc. A Fellow of ACM, the IEEE, and the Japan Society of Promotion of Science, Professor Pradhan is the recipient of a Humboldt Prize, Germany, and has numerous major technical publications spanning more than 30 years.

Ian G. Harris is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine. He is an Executive Committee Member of the IEEE Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC) and Chair of the DATC Embedded Systems Subcommittee, as well as Chair of the IEEE Test Technology Technical Committee (TTTC) and Publicity Chair of the IEEE TTTC Tutorials and Education Group. His research interests involve the testing and validation of hardware and software systems.