COEN 6551
Formal Hardware Verification
Summer 2024
Topics
- Hardware verification workflow
- Binary decision diagrams
- Combinational and sequential equivalence
- Temporal logic
- Model checking
- Predicate logic
- Theorem proving
- Verification tools and hardware case studies
Readings
- W.K. Lam, Hardware Design Verification: Simulation and Formal Method-Based Approaches, Prentice Hall, 2005.
- M.R.A. Huth and M.D. Ryan, Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning about Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- C. Baier and J.-P. Katoen, Principles of Model Checking, MIT Press, 2008.
- T.F. Melham, Higher Order Logic and Hardware Verification, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: T. Kropf, Introduction to Formal Hardware Verification, Springer, 1999.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Summer 2024
- Supplementary titles are labelled reference books in the outline.