Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design: Second International Conference, FMCAD '98, Palo Alto, CA, USA, November 4-6, 1998, Proceedings(1522 Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design, FMCAD '98, held in Palo Alto, California, USA, in November 1998.The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. Also included are four tools papers and four invited contributions. The papers present the state of the art in formal verification methods for digital circuits and systems, including processors, custom VLSI circuits, microcode, and reactive software. From the methodological point of view, binary decision diagrams, model checking, symbolic reasoning, symbolic simulation, and abstraction methods are covered.

Table of Contents:
Minimalist Proof Assistants: Interactions of Technology and Methodology in Formal System Level Verification.- Reducing Manual Abstraction in Formal Verification of Out- of- Order Execution.- Bit-Level Abstraction in the Verification of Pipelined Microprocessors by Correspondence Checking.- Solving Bit-Vector Equations.- The Formal Design of 1M-Gate ASICs.- Design of Experiments for Evaluation of BDD Packages Using Controlled Circuit Mutations.- A Tutorial on Stålmarck’s Proof Procedure for Propositional Logic.- Almana: A BDD Minimization Tool Integrating Heuristic and RewritingMethods.- Bisimulation Minimization in an Automata-Theoretic Verification Framework.- Automatic Verification of Mixed-Level Logic Circuits.- A Timed Automaton-Based Method for Accurate Computation of Circuit Delay in the Presence of Cross-Talk.- Maximum Time Separation of Events in Cyclic Systems with Linear and Latest Timing Constraints.- Using MTBDDs for Composition and Model Checking of Real-Time Systems.- Formal Methods in CAD from an Industrial Perspective.- A Methodology for Automated Verification of Synthesized RTL Designs and Its Integration with a High-Level Synthesis Tool.- Combined Formal Post- and Presynthesis Verification in High Level Synthesis.- Formalization and Proof of a Solution to the PCI 2.1 Bus Transaction Ordering Problem.- A Performance Study of BDD-Based Model Checking.- Symbolic Model Checking Visualization.- Input Elimination and Abstraction in Model Checking.- Symbolic Simulation of the JEM1 Microprocessor.- Symbolic Simulation: An ACL2 Approach.- Verification of Data-Insensitive Circuits: An In-Order-Retirement Case Study.- Combining Symbolic Model Checking with Uninterpreted Functions for Out-of-Order Processor Verification.- Formally Verifying Data and Controlwith Weak Reachability Invariants.- Generalized Reversible Rules.- An Assume-Guarantee Rule for Checking Simulation.- Three Approaches to Hardware Verification: HOL, MDG, and VIS Compared.- An Instruction Set Process Calculus.- Techniques for Implicit State Enumeration of EFSMs.- Model Checking on Product Structures.- BDDNOW: A Parallel BDD Package.- Model Checking VHDL with CV.- Alexandria: A Tool for Hierarchical Verification.- PV: An Explicit Enumeration Model-Checker.