Model Checking Verilog Descriptions of Cell Libraries

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Raffelsieper;Jan-Willem Roorda;MohammadReza Mousavi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACSD '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a formal semantics for a subset of Verilog, commonly used todescribe cell libraries, in terms of transition systems.Such transition systems can serve as input to symbolic model checking,for example equivalence checking with a transistor netlist description. Weimplement our formal semantics as an encoding from the subset of Verilog tothe input language of the SMV model-checker.Experiments show that this approach is able to verify complete cell libraries.