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Advanced Formal Verification
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This is the follow-on course to Essential Formal Verification. It is intended to take engineers beyond an introductory use of formal technologies to a deep, practical level of knowledge of formal verification.
Advanced Formal Verification will equip you to tackle complex verification challenges, by taking full advantage of formal verification on your engineering projects.
Advanced topics such as satisfiability, abstractions (e.g., safe, reduction, and induction), formal synthesis and modeling, non-determinism, advanced constraints, under- and over-constraining, and much more are discussed in depth. While the practical labs are run hands-on using specific formal verification tools, the main focus is on the concepts that are applicable to all of the current commercial formal verification tools.
Practical labs comprise approximately 50% of class time and are based around carefully designed hands-on exercises to reinforce learning. The Advanced Formal Verification exercises are built around the open source RISC-V Picorv32 project, applying formal techniques to it and other peripheral modules.
Doulos is an independent company, enabling course attendees to receive the benefit of objective tuition, while learning in the context of their chosen tool and methodology. Leading tools supported by this course include:
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This course is targeted at individuals that already have a working knowledge of formal technologies and some hands-on experience.
It is particularly targeted at engineers and teams who want to move to a subject-matter expert level on formal verification, understanding how to plan, use, and implement formal verification on their real-world projects.
This class assumes a working knowledge of SystemVerilog, SystemVerilog Assertion syntax, and formal verification concepts and tools. We strongly recommend prior attendance of the Doulos Essential Formal Verification course (or equivalent) prior to attending this course.
Please contact Doulos directly to discuss and assess your specific experience against the pre-requisites.
Doulos training materials are renowned for being the most comprehensive and user-friendly available. Their style, content and coverage are unique in the training world and have made them sought after resources.
The materials include fully indexed class notes creating a complete reference manual.
How Formal Works
Formal algorithms • Counter-examples • Formal engines • Clocking • Initialization and reset sequences • Formal flow and synthesis • Debugging with formal
Formal Modeling
Formal synthesis • Safety • Liveness • Embedded assertions • Fairness • Formal testbenches • Helper code
Nondeterminism
Free variables • Design symmetry • Data independence • Symbolic constants • Formal testbenches • Formal scoreboarding
Abstractions and Reductions
Complexity in formal • Reduction and safe reduction techniques • The basic abstraction process • Types of abstract models • Design symmetry and data independence • Example of design abstractions • Safe abstractions
Abstract Modeling
Abstract checker models • Abstraction by induction • Abstraction using state machines • Abstraction using events • Data integrity checking • Abstract checker model examples
Constraining Formal
Underconstraining • Overconstraining • Guidelines • Advanced property writing • Constraint dependencies • Determining the minimal constraint set • Error Injection
More On Constraints
Writing constraints for performance • Large input stimulus generation • Constraint dependencies • Helper constraints • Packet-based protocols
Formal Equivalency
Differences between LEC and SEC • How SEC works • Assume-guarantee process • Automatic and user-defined mappings • Helper assertions and hints • Dealing with SEC inconclusives • Applications for SEC
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