Design intent coverage revisited

  • Authors:
  • Arnab Sinha;Pallab Dasgupta;Bhaskar Pal;Sayantan Das;Prasenjit Basu;P. P. Chakrabarti

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India;Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India;Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India;Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India;Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India;Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Design intent coverage is a formal methodology for analyzing the gap between a formal architectural specification of a design and the formal functional specifications of the component RTL blocks of the design. In this article we extend the design intent coverage methodology to hybrid specifications containing both state-machines and formal properties. We demonstrate the benefits of this extension in two domains of considerable recent interest, namely (a) the use of auxiliary state-machines in formal specifications, and (b) the use of modest sized RTL blocks in the design intent coverage analysis.