Formal verification of the FPGA cores

  • Authors:
  • Carl Johan Lillieroth;Satnam Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computing Science, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden and Prover Technology AB, Alströmergatan 22, SE-112 47 Stockholm, Sweden;Xilinx Inc. 2100 Logic Drive, San Jose, 95124-3450, California

  • Venue:
  • Nordic Journal of Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

A formal verification technique is presented which is suitable for the verification of standard components (cores) for programmable hardware (FPGAs). This technique can be viewed as a suitable complement to traditional techniques, such as simulation. We describe the modelling and verification of combinational and sequential components using the formal verification tool NP-Tools, and report successful verification of real cores.