Hardware verification using ANSI-C programs as a reference
Edmund M. Clarke, Daniel Kroening · 2003
We describe an algorithm to verify a hardware design given in Verilog using an ANSI-C program as a specification. We use SAT based Bounded Model Checking [1] in order to reduce the equivalence problem to a bit vector logic decision problem. As a case study, we describe experimental results on a hardware and a software implementation of the data encryption standard (DES) algorithm.