As contemporary very large scale integration designs grow in complexity, design debugging
has rapidly established itself as one of the largest bottlenecks in the design cycle today …

Modern IC designs have reached unparalleled levels of complexity, resulting in more and
more bugs discovered after design tape-out However, so far only very few EDA tools for post …

The dramatic performance improvements of SAT solvers over the past decade have
increased their deployment in hardware verification applications. Many problems that were …

Escaped errors in released silicon are growing in number due to the increasing complexity
of modern processor designs and shrinking production schedules. Worsening the problem …

With the growing size of modern designs and more strict time-to-market constraints, design
errors can unavoidably escape pre-silicon verification and reside in silicon prototypes. Due …

Verification and debugging are important phases in System on Chip (SoC) design flow
where a large amount of time and effort must be spent to ensure the correctness of the SoC …

Functional Design Errors in Digital Circuits Diagnosis covers a wide spectrum of innovative
methods to automate the debugging process throughout the design flow: from Register …

In this chapter we take the reader through a typical microprocessor's life-cycle, from its first
high-level specification to a finished product deployed in a enduser's system, and overview …

Formal Methods in Automated Design Debugging by Sean A. Safarpour A thesis submitted in
conformity with the requirements for the Page 1 Formal Methods in Automated Design …

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based logic emulators, used for functional
verification of large and complex System-on-chip (SoC) designs are characterized by two …