Verification by Error Modeling

1: Introduction. 1. Design flow. 2. Verification - approaches and problems. 3. Book objectives.
2: Boolean function representations. 1. Background - function representations. 2. Decision diagrams. 3. Spectral representations. 4. Arithmetic transform.
3: Don't cares and their calculation. 1. Incompletely specified Boolean functions. 2. Using don't cares for redundancy identification.
4: Testing. 1. Introduction. 2. Fault list reduction. 3. Overview of simulators. 4. Fault simulators. 5. Deterministic vector generation - ATPG. 6. Conclusions.
5: Design error models. 1. Introduction. 2. Design errors. 3. Explicit design error models. 4. Implicit error model precursors. 5. Additive implicit error model. 6. Design error detection and correction. 7. Conclusions.
6: Design verification by AT. 1. Introduction. 2. Detecting small AT errors. 3. Bounding error by Walsh transform. 4. Experimental results. 5. Conclusions.
7: Identifying redundant gate and wire replacements. 1. Introduction. 2. Gate replacement faults. 3. Redundancy detection by don't cares. 4.Exact redundant fault identification. 5. Identifying redundant wire replacements. 6. Exact wire redundancy identification. 7. I/O port replacement detection. 8. Experimental results. 9. Conclusions. Conclusions and furtherwork. 1. Conclusions. 2. Future work.
Appendices. References. Index.