Assertions bring immediate benefits to the entire design and verification cycle. To use assertions effectively in the verification cycle, they need to be exercised for checking legal design behavior ...

Verification is one of the most critical and challenging tasks, which takes almost 50 % of the complete design and verification cycle. With the complexity of the designs on the rise and with that also ...

Over the last ten years, we have seen tremendous progress in technologies for formal verification of the behavior of RTL designs. Today, these formal technologies are vastly more thorough than ...

Design-for-verification (DFV) using assertions has received much attention in the recent technical press. Coverage has ranged from standardization efforts for assertion languages to complete DFV ...

One of the greatest bug-squashing tools available to embedded software developers is the assertion macro in C. Despite the power of ASSERT, though, I rarely see it implemented and in the cases where ...

Assertions have been in the software engineering canon for many years, most notably as the centerpiece of the Design by Contract facility that Bertrand Meyer built into his Eiffel programming language ...

Assertions have been a staple in formal verification for years. Now they are being examined to see what else they can be used for, and the list is growing. Traditionally, design and verification ...

This paper presents an empirical case study of two commercial software components at Microsoft Corporation. The developers of these components systematically employed assertions, which allowed us to ...

It is well documented and widely agreed that assertions can provide a tremendous benefit to design and verification teams by reducing and even eliminating debug – but their use is still not ubiquitous ...