Behavioral consistency of C and Verilog programs using bounded model checking

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 368-371

  Clarke, Edmund ^a   Kroening, Daniel ^a   Yorav, Karen ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ANSI C; Equivalence Checking; Verilog

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EQUIVALENCE CHECKING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 0042134845     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/775832.775928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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