A symbolic methodology for the verification of analog and mixed signal designs

  • Authors:
  • Ghiath Al-Sammane;Mohamed H. Zaki;Sofiène Tahar

  • Affiliations:
  • Concordia University, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a new symbolic verification methodology for proving the properties of analog and mixed signal (AMS) designs. Starting with an AMS description and a set of properties and using symbolic computation, we extract a normal mathematical representation for the system in terms of recurrence equations. These normalized equations are used along with an induction verification strategy defined inside the computer algebra system Mathematica to prove the correctness of the properties. We apply our methodology on a third order ΔΣ modulator.