Formal Verification of VHDL Descriptions in the Prevail Environment

  • Authors:
  • Dominique D. Borrione;Laurence V. Pierre;Ashrak M. Salem

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Prevail, a formal verification environment for proving the equivalence of two very-high-speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) design architectures, is described. For simple bit-level combinational descriptions, the environment calls upon a tautology checker. For parameterized repetitive structures and for more abstract sequential designs, the program translates descriptions into recursive functions according to predefined templates and generates a theorem acceptable to the Bover-Moore theorem prover. The specification, implementation, and functional representation of a sequential example are presented.