Formal specification in VHDL for hardware verification

  • Authors:
  • R. Reetz;K. Schneider;T. Kropf

  • Affiliations:
  • Verysys GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin, Germany;Institut für Rechnerentwurf und Fehlertoleranz, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany;nstitut für Rechnerentwurf und Fehlertoleranz, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper, we enrich VHDL with new specification constructs intended for hardware verification. Using our extensions, total correctness properties may now be stated whereas only partial correctness can be expressed using the standard VHDL assert statement. All relevant properties can now be specified in such a way that the designer does not need to use formalisms like temporal logics. As the specifications are independent from a certain formalism, there is no restriction to a certain hardware verification approach.