Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods, CHARME’99, held in Bad Herrenalb, Germany in September 1999. The 20 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on proofs of microprocessors, model checking, formal methods and industrial applications, abstraction and compositional techniques, theorem proving and related approaches, symbolic simulation and symbolic traversal, and specification languages and methodologies.