According to Moore's law, Integrated Chips (IC) doubles its capacity every 18 months. This
causes an exponential increase of the available area, and hence, the complexity of modern …

According to Moore's law, Integrated Chips (IC) doubles its capacity every 18 months. This
causes an exponential increase of the available area, and hence, the complexity of modern …

Formal methods for the verification of Integrated Circuits (ICs) are a collection of techniques
used to ensure the correctness of a design before fabrication. Formal methods have been …

The design of digital integrated circuits relies on gradually compiling a circuit specified by
hardware description language into its physical implementation layout. Such a design flow is …

Integrated circuit design has progressed significantly over the last few decades. This
increasing complexity of hardware systems poses several challenges to the digital hardware …

Integrated circuit technology has made it possible to produce chips with several millions of
transistors. However, the increasingly more complex digital circuit designs and limited time …

In the early 1980s, IBM's mainframe design ow introduced automatic logic synthesis that
largely replaced the manual design step. is did not diminish the importance of equivalence …

Powerful sequential optimization techniques can drastically change the Integrated Circuit
(IC) design paradigm. Due to the limited capability of sequential verification tools …

Over the recent past, the focus of EDA tools has been on tackling the chip issues. Today,
system design issues areemerging as the top concerns of design teams. The issues include …

With increasing functional complexity of chips, it has become impractical to reason about
their correctness manually. Traditional techniques for verification of a design against its …