Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001, Volume 2102/2001, 373-377, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44585-4_35

BOOSTER: Speeding Up RTL Property Checking of Digital Designs by Word-Level Abstraction

Peer Johannsen

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Abstract

In this paper we present a tool which operates as a pre- and postprocessor for RTL property checking and simplifies word-level specifications before verification, thus speeding up property checking runtimes and allowing larger design sizes to be verified. The basic idea is to scale down design sizes by exploiting word-level information. BooStER implements a new technique which computes a one-to-one RTL abstraction of a digital design in which the widths of word-level signals are reduced with respect to a property, i.e. the property holds for the abstract RTL if and only if it holds for the original RTL. The property checking task is completely carried out on the scaled-down version of the design. If the property fails then the tool computes counterexamples for the original RTL from counterexamples found on the reduced model.

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