High-density reachability analysis
ICCAD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
DAC '98 Proceedings of the 35th annual Design Automation Conference
High-Level specification and automatic generation of IP interface monitors
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
SAT-Based Image Computation with Application in Reachability Analysis
FMCAD '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
A Technique for Invariant Generation
TACAS 2001 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Checking Satisfiability of First-Order Formulas by Incremental Translation to SAT
CAV '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Powerful Techniques for the Automatic Generation of Invariants
CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Assertion-Based Design
Non-linear loop invariant generation using Gröbner bases
Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
IODINE: a tool to automatically infer dynamic invariants for hardware designs
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Block-based Schema-driven Assertion Generation for Functional Verification
ATS '05 Proceedings of the 14th Asian Test Symposium on Asian Test Symposium
Hybrid CEGAR: combining variable hiding and predicate abstraction
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
The temporal logic of programs
SFCS '77 Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Simulation-directed invariant mining for software verification
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Automated assumption generation for compositional verification
CAV'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computer aided verification
Scalable specification mining for verification and diagnosis
Proceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference
GoldMine: automatic assertion generation using data mining and static analysis
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Automatic assertion extraction via sequential data mining of simulation traces
Proceedings of the 2010 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
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Assertions are valuable and commonly applied to formal verification and simulation-based verification in IC design flow. Unfortunately, assertion generation is a time-consuming process that depends heavily on human efforts. Some dynamic methods based on simulation and static methods based on structure analysis are proposed to automate assertion generation process. However, dynamic methods cannot guarantee the quality of assertions due to incomplete simulation while static methods might have scalability limits. With the significant advances in Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, SAT solving becomes a promising technique to overcome these methods' weaknesses. In this paper, we successfully formulate assertion generation to a SAT problem and use unit assumption to generate concise assertions. Furthermore, we consider input constraints and word level features to generate meaningful and high-readability assertions. Experimental results on SpaceWire, Ethernet, and Floating Point designs show that the generated assertions can always achieve 100% input space coverage.