Abstract Model checking technologies have been applied to hardware verification in the last
15 years. Pioneering work has been conducted in Intel since 1990 using model checking …

Formal verification of hardware and software systems has gained popularity in industry since
the advent of the famous “Pentium bug” in 1994, which caused Intel to recall faulty chips and …

In the past two decades, model-checking has emerged as a promising and powerful
approach to fully automatic verification of hardware systems. But model checking technology …

The interplay back and forth between software model checking and hardware model
checking has been fruitful for both. Originally intended for the analysis of concurrent …

RuleBase is a formal verification tool, developed by the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory. It is
the result of three years of experience in practical formal verification of hardware which, we …

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in the application of formal methods for
hardware design and verification. Much of the early work was on applying proof checking …

In the last quarter century computer-aided verification–especially in the form of model
checking–has evolved from a research concept to a commercial product. While the pace of …

As technology advances and demand for higher performance increases hardware designs
are becoming more and more sophisticated. A typical chip design may contain over ten …

RuleBase is a symbolic model checking tool, developed by the IBM Haifa Research
Laboratory. It is the result of four years of experience in practical formal verification of …

Over the past nine years, the Formal Methods Group at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
has made steady progress in developing tools and techniques that make the power of model …