Practical Introduction to PSL

Functional veri?cation is hard. Period. No disagreement here. But why is this so? Consider today’s design ?ow: much of it is more or less automated, from RTL to netlist to layout to silicon. But all this automation depends upon having correct RTL input to start with, and there is little or no automation to help with RTL creation. It is hard enough for a designer to decide what RTL model he wants t...