The growing complexity and size of integrated circuits has made functional verification a
huge challenge. As the control center of integrated circuit hardware design, any design …

Deterministic test generation methods are time consuming and, this has led to emergence of
simulation-based approaches. The basis of simulation-based methods is to propose a …

In this paper, we present an efficient formal approach to check the equivalence of
synthesized RTL against the high-level specification in the presence of pipelining …

Validation and verification of modern safety-critical systems demand an increasing amount
of time and effort as systems become more complicated. Fault Injection (FI) is a well-known …

Simulation is the most widely used form of validation using billions of random and pseudo-
random tests in the traditional design flow. A critical problem in post-silicon debug is to …

Silicon debugging of integrated circuits is exacerbated by the lack of golden responses,
highly restricted observability and irreproducible nature of bugs. Debug engineers need to …

Due to tremendous growth in the complexity of modern designs, bugs inevitably escape the
pre-silicon verification stage because of incomplete functional verification. Furthermore …

As semiconductor manufacturing progresses to smaller process nodes, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to climb the yield learning curve rapidly. The rate of yield learning …

Verification is the procedure to check if there is a discrepancy between a design and its
specification. Debugging target is to find the location of the observed error (s). Correction …