Chapter 9. Functional verification
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In a typical integrated circuit (IC) design flow, functional verification ensures that the implementation conforms to the specification. Because of the rapid growth of both design size and complexity, functional verification has become one of the key bottlenecks in the design process. For example, it has been reported in [Bailey 2002] that the functional verification process consumes more than 70% of the design effort, and this number might continue to increase. Functional verification is critical, because an undetected bug in a design may result in significant financial loss for a company. The Pentium recall for the famous FDIV bug, for example, cost Intel more than $450 million in 1995. ...
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