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Circuits and architectures have become more complex in terms of structure, interconnection topology and data flow. Design correctness has become increasingly significant, as erors in design may result in strenuous debugging or even in the repetition of a costly manufacturing process. Although circuit simulation has been used traditionally and widely as the technique for checking hardware and architectural designs, it does not guarantee the conformity of designs to specifications. Formal methods therefore become vital in guaranteeing the correctness of designs and have thus received a significant amount of attention in the CAD industry. This book presents a formal method for specifying and verifying the correctness of systolic array designs. Such architectures are commonly found in the form of accelerators for digital, signal, image and video processing. These arrays can be quite complicated in topology and data flow. In the book, a formalism called STA is defined for these kinds of dynamic environments with a survey of related techniques. A framework for specification and verification is established. Formal verification techniques to check the correctness of the systolic networks with respect to the algorithmic level specifications are explained. The book also presents a Prolog-based formal design verifier (named VSTA), developed to automate the verification process, as using a general purpose theorem prover is usually extremely time-consuming. Several application examples are included in the book to illustrate how formal techniques and the verifier can be used to automate proofs.

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Computer science Computer architecture & logic design

• Full title: Specification And Verification Of Systolic Arrays
• Author: Magdy A. Bayoumi, Nam Ling
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9789810238674
• ISBN: 9810238673
• ID: 05066316
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 435 g
• Dimensions: 256 × 198 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. February 1999

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