Design-for-verification (DFV) using assertions has received much attention in the recent technical press. Coverage has ranged from standardization efforts for assertion languages to complete DFV ...

Verification is one of the most critical and challenging tasks, which takes almost 50 % of the complete design and verification cycle. With the complexity of the designs on the rise and with that also ...

Assertions bring immediate benefits to the entire design and verification cycle. To use assertions effectively in the verification cycle, they need to be exercised for checking legal design behavior ...

Recent assertion-standardization achievements hold the promise of improving verification efficiency and allowing formal verification to work with simulation. There are tools that support assertion ...

Over the last ten years, we have seen tremendous progress in technologies for formal verification of the behavior of RTL designs. Today, these formal technologies are vastly more thorough than ...

Assertions have been a staple in formal verification for years. Now they are being examined to see what else they can be used for, and the list is growing. Traditionally, design and verification ...

Assertions have been in the software engineering canon for many years, most notably as the centerpiece of the Design by Contract facility that Bertrand Meyer built into his Eiffel programming language ...

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This paper presents an empirical case study of two commercial software components at Microsoft Corporation. The developers of these components systematically employed assertions, which allowed us to ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As a future QOL enhancement, consider showing less stack if the user is using assertions from the MSTest.TestFramework nuget package.