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This text offers a quality-driven design and verification flow for digital systems. Dedicated verification techniques are integrated which target the different levels of abstraction, and each technique has a means to measure the achieved verification quality.

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A quality-driven design and verification flow for digital systems is developed and presented in Quality-Driven SystemC Design. Two major enhancements characterize the new flow: First, dedicated verification techniques are integrated which target the different levels of abstraction. Second, each verification technique is complemented by an approach to measure the achieved verification quality. The new flow distinguishes three levels of abstraction (namely system level, top level and block level) and can be incorporated in existing approaches. After reviewing the preliminary concepts, in the following chapters the three levels for modeling and verification are considered in detail. At each level the verification quality is measured. In summary, following the new design and verification flow a high overall quality results.

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Dedication. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. INTRODUCTION. 2. PRELIMINARIES. 2.1 Boolean Reasoning. 2.2 Circuits. 2.3 Formal Verification. 2.4 SystemC. 3. SYSTEM-LEVEL VERIFICATION. 3.1 Constraint-based Simulation. 3.2 Improvements for Constraint-based Simulation. 3.3 Contradiction Analysis for Constraint-based Simulation. 3.4 Measuring the Quality of Testbenches. 3.5 Summary and Future Work. 4. BLOCK-LEVEL VERIFICATION. 4.1 Property Checking. 4.2 Acceleration of Iterative Property Checking. 4.3 Contradictory Antecedent Debugging for Property Checking. 4.4 Analyzing Functional Coverage in Property Checking. 4.5 Summary and Future Work. 5. TOP-LEVEL VERIFICATION. 5.1 Checker Generation. 5.2 HW/SW Co-Verification for Embedded Systems. 5.3 Summary and Future Work. 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS. References. Index.

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