Formal methods constitute a suite of mathematically based techniques that are employed to specify, develop, and verify software systems with a high degree of rigour. These techniques aim to transform ...

A laptop computer runs desktop configuration software at the 60th Communications Squadron computer warehouse at Travis Air Force Base, California, Sept. 11, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch) ...

It’s no secret that hardware is the new currency in the chip world. It’s no longer the case that the semiconductor industry is in the hands of traditional semiconductor giants; an increasing number of ...

Why testing alone cannot assure correctness in complex safety-critical software, and how edge cases and undefined behavior are able to evade validation efforts. How formal verification is used to ...

When we talk about the signoff of digital IP, we are referring to the full verification of a block. Every feature listed in a device’s datasheet requires verification. Furthermore, every register ...

How formal verification is able to find bugs before signoff. Formal verification’s ability to mathematically prove exhaustively that a chip design meets a set of assertions. Formal techniques are ...