Principles of Verifiable RTL Design A Functional Coding Style Supporting Verification Processes in Verilog

Bening, Lionel & Harry D. Foster

ISBN 10: 0792373685 / ISBN 13: 9780792373681

Published by Kluwer Boston Incorporated, 2001

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There is some liquid damage resulting in many of the pages having a wavy texture on the bottom half, but there are no stains. Otherwise the book has minor wear. Clean with no highlighting or writing detected on any pages. 30-day return policy. Free shipping within Canada. For shipments outside of Canada, custom duties or other charges may be levied on receipt. ; 6.38 X 0.95 X 9.5 inches; 282 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Principles of Verifiable RTL Design A Functional Coding Style Supporting Verification Processes in Verilog
• Publisher: Kluwer Boston Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792373685
• ISBN 13: 9780792373681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

System designers, computer scientists and engineers have c- tinuously invented and employed notations for modeling, speci- ing, simulating, documenting, communicating, teaching, verifying and controlling the designs of digital systems. Initially these s- tems were represented via electronic and fabrication details. F- lowing C. E. Shannon’s revelation of 1948, logic diagrams and Boolean equations were used to represent digital systems in a fa- ion that de-emphasized electronic and fabrication detail while revealing logical behavior. A small number of circuits were made available to remove the abstraction of these representations when it was desirable to do so. As system complexity grew, block diagrams, timing charts, sequence charts, and other graphic and symbolic notations were found to be useful in summarizing the gross features of a system and describing how it operated. In addition, it always seemed necessary or appropriate to augment these documents with lengthy verbal descriptions in a natural language. While each notation was, and still is, a perfectly valid means of expressing a design, lack of standardization, conciseness, and f- mal definitions interfered with communication and the understa- ing between groups of people using different notations. This problem was recognized early and formal languages began to evolve in the 1950s when I. S. Reed discovered that flip-flop input equations were equivalent to a register transfer equation, and that xvi tor-like notation. Expanding these concepts Reed developed a no- tion that became known as a Register Transfer Language (RTL).