We are seeing an increased push in the use of formal verification techniques in safety-
critical software and hardware in practice. Formal verification has been successfully used to …

In this paper we introduce a variant of temporal logic tailored for specifying desired
properties of continuous signals. The logic is based on a bounded subset of the real-time …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

Over the past decade, system-on-chip (SoC) designs have evolved to address the ever
increasing complexity of applications, fueled by the era of digital convergence …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

Over the past ten years, as integrated circuits became increasingly more complex and
expensive, the industry began to embrace new design and reuse methodologies that are …

The logic of equality with uninterpreted functions (EUF) and its extensions have been widely
applied to processor verification, by means of a large variety of progressively more …

Functional veri? cation is hard. Period. No disagreement here. But why is this so? Consider
today's design? ow: much of it is more or less automated, from RTL to netlist to layout to …

In this paper we describe the ForSpec Temporal Logic (FTL), the new temporal property-
specification logic of ForSpec, Intel's new formal specification language. The key features of …

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are embedded computers widely used in industrial
control systems. Ensuring that a PLC software complies with its specification is a challenging …