Using coverage to deploy formal verification in a simulation world

  • Authors:
  • Vigyan Singhal;Prashant Aggarwal

  • Affiliations:
  • Oski Technology, Inc.;Oski Technology, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • CAV'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Computer aided verification
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Formal verification technology has today advanced to the stage that it can complement or replace simulation effort for selected hardware designs. Yet the completion of a formal verification effort is rarely a requirement for hardware tapeout. Simulation remains the primary verification methodology, and means of deciding when verification is complete. In this paper we discuss how formal verification can be deployed using simulation-based coverage in a simulation-based verification schedule.