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Practical Formal Methods for Hardware Design

By Werner Damm , Carlos Delgado Kloos , Juan Goicolea (auth.) , Werner Damm (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1997
ISBN
978-3-540-62007-5, 978-3-642-60641-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-60641-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10255195 bytes)
Series
Research Reports Esprit
Edition
1
Pages
293\303
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

Formal methods for hardware design still find limited use in industry. Yet current practice has to change to cope with decreasing design times and increasing quality requirements. This research report presents results from the Esprit project FORMAT (formal methods in hardware verification) which involved the collaboration of the enterprises Siemens, Italtel, Telefonica I+D, TGI, and AHL, the research institute OFFIS, and the universities of Madrid and Passau. The work presented involves advanced specification languages for hardware design that are intuitive to the designer, like timing diagrams and state based languages, as well as their relation to VHDL and formal languages like temporal logic and a process-algebraic calculus. The results of experimental tests of the tools are also presented.

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