Assisting Abstraction and Verification of Hardware Intellectual Property (IP) Modules (Omn.Univ.Europ.) - Softcover

Muhammad, Waseem

 
9786131500497: Assisting Abstraction and Verification of Hardware Intellectual Property (IP) Modules (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 6131500495 ISBN 13: 9786131500497
Publisher: Éditions universitaires européennes, 2011

Synopsis

Hardware verification has become challenging due to growing complexity of today's designs. We aim at assisting verification of hardware intellectual properties (IP) at register transfer level by means of data abstraction and static formal analysis techniques. We intuitively define the "Control". The proposed definition was envisaged for separating Control and Data, independent of the subjective choice or the specific syntax. We have worked around a few semantic issues of the definition and demonstrated by reasoning. A control-data slicing algorithm is proposed to split the module into a control slice and a data slice. An abstraction is achieved in case of slicing with data-independent control. The bit accurate RTL data slice is replaced by a functional data computation model for fast simulations. The control slice being critical entity with timing information, remains intact during this process. We have proposed the notion of significance to represent the intentional data in IP modules. Significance is used to represent boolean data dependencies in modules for formal verification of the data flows.

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About the Author

Cette livre contient l'information sur le projet et ma recherche du doctorat en informatiques.

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Publisher
Éditions universitaires européennes
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
6131500495
ISBN 13 
9786131500497
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
144