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Introduction

VIS (Verification Interacting with Synthesis) is a tool that integrates the verification, simulation, and synthesis of finite-state hardware systems. It uses a Verilog front end and supports fair CTL model checking, language emptiness checking, combinational and sequential equivalence checking, cycle-based simulation, and hierarchical synthesis.

We designed VIS to maximize performance by using state-of-the-art algorithms, and to provide a solid platform for future research in formal verification. VIS improves upon existing verification tools by:

  1. providing a better programming environment,

  2. providing new capabilities, and

  3. improving performance in some cases.

We have incorporated software engineering methods into the design of VIS. In particular, we provide extensive documentation that is automatically extracted from the source files for browsing on the World Wide Web.

Section 2 describes the major capabilities of VIS as seen by the user, and Section 3 gives a brief description of the underlying algorithms of these capabilities. Section 4 discusses the VIS programming environment, and Section 5 gives conclusions and ideas for future work.



Tom Shiple
Thu Feb 8 16:55:08 PST 1996
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