Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design

Minimalist Proof Assistants: Interactions of Technology and Methodology in Formal System Level Verification.- Reducing Manual Abstraction in Formal Verification of Out- of- Order Execution.- Bit-Level Abstraction in the Verification of Pipelined Microprocessors by Correspondence Checking.- Solving Bit-Vector Equations.- The Formal Design of 1M-Gate ASICs.- Design of Experiments for Evaluation of BDD Packages Using Controlled Circuit Mutations.- A Tutorial on Stålmarck’s Proof Procedure for Propositional Logic.- Almana: A BDD Minimization Tool Integrating Heuristic and RewritingMethods.- Bisimulation Minimization in an Automata-Theoretic Verification Framework.- Automatic Verification of Mixed-Level Logic Circuits.- A Timed Automaton-Based Method for Accurate Computation of Circuit Delay in the Presence of Cross-Talk.- Maximum Time Separation of Events in Cyclic Systems with Linear and Latest Timing Constraints.- Using MTBDDs for Composition and Model Checking of Real-Time Systems.- Formal Methods in CAD from an Industrial Perspective.- A Methodology for Automated Verification of Synthesized RTL Designs and Its Integration with a High-Level Synthesis Tool.- Combined Formal Post- and Presynthesis Verification in High Level Synthesis.- Formalization and Proof of a Solution to the PCI 2.1 Bus Transaction Ordering Problem.- A Performance Study of BDD-Based Model Checking.- Symbolic Model Checking Visualization.- Input Elimination and Abstraction in Model Checking.- Symbolic Simulation of the JEM1 Microprocessor.- Symbolic Simulation: An ACL2 Approach.- Verification of Data-Insensitive Circuits: An In-Order-Retirement Case Study.- Combining Symbolic Model Checking with Uninterpreted Functions for Out-of-Order Processor Verification.- Formally Verifying Data and Controlwith Weak Reachability Invariants.- Generalized Reversible Rules.- An Assume-Guarantee Rule for Checking Simulation.- Three Approaches to Hardware Verification: HOL, MDG, and VIS Compared.- An Instruction Set Process Calculus.- Techniques for Implicit State Enumeration of EFSMs.- Model Checking on Product Structures.- BDDNOW: A Parallel BDD Package.- Model Checking VHDL with CV.- Alexandria: A Tool for Hierarchical Verification.- PV: An Explicit Enumeration Model-Checker.