Functional verification is widely acknowledged as a major bottleneck in microprocessor design. While early work on specification driven functional test program generation has prop...
Cutting-edge applications of future embedded systems demand highest processor performance with low power consumption to get acceptable battery-life times. Therefore, low power opt...
Anupam Chattopadhyay, B. Geukes, David Kammler, Er...
Reconfigurable systems, and in particular, FPGA-based custom computing machines, offer a unique opportunity to define application-specific architectures. These architectures offer...
Heidi E. Ziegler, Byoungro So, Mary W. Hall, Pedro...
Register Transfer Level (RTL) synthesis model which simplified the design of clocked circuits allowed design automation boost and VLSI progress for more than a decade. Shrinking t...
Alexander B. Smirnov, Alexander Taubin, Ming Su, M...
We present a technique for automatic verification of pipelined microprocessors using model checking. Antecedent conditioned slicing is an efficient abstraction technique for hardw...
Shobha Vasudevan, Vinod Viswanath, Jacob A. Abraha...