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COEN 6551

Formal Hardware Verification

4 credits · Graduate

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.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • M.R.A. Huth and M.D. Ryan, Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning about Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • C. Baier and J.-P. Katoen, Principles of Model Checking, MIT Press, 2008.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • T.F. Melham, Higher Order Logic and Hardware Verification, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: T. Kropf, Introduction to Formal Hardware Verification, Springer, 1999.
    Listed reading
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