Normalization at the arithmetic bit level

  • Authors:
  • Markus Wedler;Dominik Stoffel;Wolfgang Kunz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Kaiserslautern/Germany;University of Kaiserslautern/Germany;University of Kaiserslautern/Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a normalization technique for verifying arithmetic circuits in a bounded model checking environment. Our technique operates on the arithmetic bit level (ABL) description of the arithmetic circuit parts and the property. The ABL description can easily be provided by the front-end of an RTL property checker. The proposed normalization greatly simplifies the SAT instances to be solved for arithmetic circuit verification. Our approach has been applied successfully to verify the integer pipeline of an industrial microprocessor with advanced DSP capabilities.