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Formal Verification of Circuits
	Author: Rolf Drechsler Publisher: Springer Category: Book List Price: ~~$153.00~~ Buy New: $152.99 You Save: $0.01 New (12) Used (10) from $46.69 Sales Rank: 3186943 Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Pages: 179 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.7 ISBN: 079237858X Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38150287 EAN: 9780792378587 ASIN: 079237858X Publication Date: January 15, 2000 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: All orders ship same business day via standard shipping (USPS Media Mail) if received by 1 PM CST.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Formal verification has become one of the most important steps in circuit design. Since circuits can contain several million transistors, verification of such large designs becomes more and more difficult. Pure simulation cannot guarantee the correct behavior and exhaustive simulation is often impossible. However, many designs, like ALUs, have very regular structures that can be easily described at a higher level of abstraction. For example, describing (and verifying) an integer multiplier at the bit-level is very difficult, while the verification becomes easy when the outputs are grouped to build a bit-string. Recently, several approaches for formal circuit verification have been proposed that make use of these regularities. These approaches are based on Word-Level Decision Diagrams (WLDDs) which are graph-based representations of functions (similar to BDDs) that allow for the representation of functions with a Boolean range and an integer domain. Formal Verification of Circuits is devoted to the discussion of recent developments in the field of decision diagram-based formal verification. Firstly, different types of decision diagrams (including WLDDs) are introduced and theoretical properties are discussed that give further insight into the data structure. Secondly, implementation and minimization concepts are presented. Applications to arithmetic circuit verification and verification of designs specified by hardware description languages are described to show how WLDDs work in practice. Formal Verification of Circuits is intended for CAD developers and researchers as well as designers using modern verification tools. It will help people working with formal verification (in industry or academia) to keep informed about recent developments in this area.