Hardware Design Verification: Simulation and Formal Method-Based Approaches (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series'sub Series: Ph Signal Integrity Library) - Softcover

Lam, William K.

9780137010929: Hardware Design Verification: Simulation and Formal Method-Based Approaches (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series'sub Series: Ph Signal Integrity Library)

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ISBN 10: 0137010923 ISBN 13: 9780137010929

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005

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The Practical, Start-to-Finish Guide to Modern Digital Design Verification

As digital logic designs grow larger and more complex, functional verification has become the number one bottleneck in the design process. Reducing verification time is crucial to project success, yet many practicing engineers have had little formal training in verification, and little exposure to the newest solutions. Hardware Design Verification systematically presents today's most valuable simulation-based and formal verification techniques, helping test and design engineers choose the best approach for each project, quickly gain confidence in their designs, and move into fabrication far more rapidly. College students will find that coverage of verification principles and common industry practices will help them prepare for jobs as future verification engineers.

Author William K. Lam, one of the world's leading experts in design verification, is a recent winner of the Chairman's Award for Innovation, Sun Microsystems' most prestigious technical achievement award. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience, he introduces the foundational principles of verification, presents traditional techniques that have survived the test of time, and introduces emerging techniques for today's most challenging designs. Throughout, Lam emphasizes practical examples rather than mathematical proofs; wherever advanced math is essential, he explains it clearly and accessibly.

Coverage includes

Simulation-based versus formal verification: advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs

Coding for verification: functional and timing correctness, syntactical and structure checks, simulation performance, and more

Simulator architectures and operations, including event-driven, cycle-based, hybrid, and hardware-based simulators

Testbench organization, design, and tools: creating a fast, efficient test environment

Test scenarios and assertion: planning, test cases, test generators, commercial and Verilog assertions, and more

Ensuring complete coverage, including code, parameters, functions, items, and cross-coverage

The verification cycle: failure capture, scope reduction, bug tracking, simulation data dumping, isolation of underlying causes, revision control, regression, release mechanisms, and tape-out criteria

An accessible introduction to the mathematics and algorithms of formal verification, from Boolean functions to state-machine equivalence and graph algorithms

Decision diagrams, equivalence checking, and symbolic simulation

Model checking and symbolic computation

Simply put, Hardware Design Verification will help you improve and accelerate your entire verification process--from planning through tape-out--so you can get to market faster with higher quality designs.

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About the Author:

William K. Lam is senior engineering manager at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and the 2002 winner of the Chairman's Award for Innovation, Sun's highest award for technical achievement. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he won the 1994 David J. Sakrison Memorial Award for distinguished Ph.D. thesis.

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