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Exploring essential concepts in Formal Verification

September 18, 2024

What is a witness? is it the same as a counterexample? A witness is a sequence of inputs that demonstrates…

By Nicolae Tusinschi
3 MIN READ

Assertions and benefits of abstractions in Formal Verification

September 11, 2024

How are assertions specified? Assertions are typically specified using languages like SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) or Property Specification Language (PSL). These…

By Nicolae Tusinschi
3 MIN READ

Understanding Formal Verification

September 5, 2024

What is formal verification? Formal verification is a method to ensure that a hardware design behaves as intended by using…

By Nicolae Tusinschi
2 MIN READ

Accellera Day at DVCon U.S. 2024

February 19, 2024

DVCon U.S. 2024 will be a week packed with paper sessions, tutorials, panels, keynotes and more on the latest in…

By Dennis Brophy
2 MIN READ

Pro Tip: Planning to Land Your Spacecraft on Mars? You Will Need CDC, RDC, and Formal Property Checking

May 19, 2022

If you are an engineer at one of the growing number of entities looking to land a spacecraft on Mars…

By Joe Hupcey III
4 MIN READ
How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 5 – Memory Abstraction

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 5 – Memory Abstraction

October 23, 2018

When big counters and memories are in the active logic cone of an assertion that keeps coming up as “inconclusive”,…

By Joe Hupcey III
4 MIN READ
How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

September 28, 2018

When big counters and memories are in the active logic cone of an assertion that keeps coming up as “inconclusive”,…

By Joe Hupcey III
4 MIN READ
How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

September 11, 2018

In Part 2 of this series, we showed how reducing the complexity of you assumptions (a/k/a constraints) can really help…

By Joe Hupcey III
5 MIN READ
How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

August 22, 2018

When using formal property checking, users often encounter “inconclusive” results; meaning the combined complexity of the design, assertions, and assumptions…

By Joe Hupcey III
3 MIN READ