Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: 305
TOPIC AREA:  VERIFICATION AND TEST


   SESSION 60
  Bounded Model Checking and Equivalence Verification
  Chair: Gagan Hasteer - Calypto Design Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
  Organizers: Anmol Mathur, Avi Ziv

  This session groups two papers on equivalence checking with two papers on bounded property checking. One equivalence paper compares very high-level descriptions to RTL, and the other extracts RTL from transistor models of FPGAs. The bounded property checking papers propose automatic heuristics for guiding BDD-based state-space exploration and deriving invariants to improve model checking efficiency.

  60.1   Early Cutpoint Insertion for High-Level Software vs. RTL Formal Combinational Equivalence Verification
  Speaker(s): Xiushan Feng - Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  Author(s): Xiushan Feng - Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Alan J. Hu - Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  60.2s  Transistor Abstraction for the Functional Verification of FPGAs
  Speaker(s): Guy Dupenloup - Altera Corp., San Jose, CA
  Author(s): Guy Dupenloup - Altera Corp., San Jose, CA
Thierry Lemeunier - Altera Corp., San Jose, CA
Roland Mayr - Altera Corp., San Jose, CA
  60.3s  Automatic Invariant Strengthening to Prove Properties in Bounded Model Checking
  Speaker(s): Mohammad H. Awedh - Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  Author(s): Mohammad H. Awedh - Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Fabio Somenzi - Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  60.4  Fast Falsification Based on Symbolic Bounded Property Checking
  Speaker(s): Prakash M. Peranandam - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
  Author(s): Prakash M. Peranandam - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Pradeep K. Nalla - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Juergen Ruf - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Roland J. Weiss - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Thomas Kropf - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Wolfgang Rosenstiel - Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany