IEEE International High Level Design
Validation and Test Workshop 2005

December 1 - December 2, 2005
(Evening reception and registration on November 30, 2005)
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa
In pdf format.
HLDVT 05 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
  • 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm - Registration
  • 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Reception & Buffet Dinner
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1
  • 7:00 am - 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
  • 7:00 am - 6:00 pm - Registration
  • 8:00 am - 8:10 am - Welcome Remarks
Session 1 - 8:10 am - 9:50 am - Test, Fault & Error Modeling
  • Simulation-Based Functional Test Generation for Embedded Processors
    Hung-Pin (Charles) Wen, opwen@ece.ucsb.edu, Li-C. Wang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Scalable Defect Mapping and Configuration of Memory-Based Nanofabrics
    Chen He, che@ece.utexas.edu, Univ. of Texas, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin TX, Margarida F. Jacome, Gustavo de Veciana, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
  • Improvement of Fault Injection Techniques Based on VHDL Code Modification
    Joaquin Gracia, jgracia@disca.upv.es, Daniel Gil, Juan C. Baraza, Pedro J. Gil, Universidad Poltecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
  • MVP: A Mutation-Based Validation Paradigm
    Jorge Campos, jcampos@ucdavis.edu, Hussain Al-Asaad, Univ. of California, Davis, CA
9:50 am - 10:10 am - Break
Session 2 - 10:10 am - 11:25 am - Equivalence Verification
  • Establishing Latch Correspondence for Embedded Circuits of PowerPC(R) Microprocessors
    Himyanshu Anand, himyanshu.anand@freescale.com, Jayanta Bhadra, Alper Sen, Magdy S. Abadir, Kenneth G. Davis, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Austin, TX
  • Sequential Equivalence Checking Based on K-th Invariants and Circuit SAT Solving
    Feng Lu, lufeng@ece.ucsb.edu, Tim Cheng, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • VERISEC: VERIfying Equivalence of SEquential Circuits using SAT
    Manan Syal, mysal@vt.edu, Intel Corp.,Hillsboro, OR, Michael S. Hsiao, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA
11:25 am - 11:45 am - Break
Session 3 - 11:45 am - 12:35 pm - System-Level Modeling & Co-Design
  • Automated Clock Inference for Stream Function-Based System Level Specifications
    Sandeep K. Shukla, shukla@vt.edu, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, Jean-Pierre Talpin, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France
  • Cosimulation of ITRON-Based Embedded Software with SystemC
    Shin-ichiro Chikada, chikada@ertl.jp, Shinya Honda, Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Hiroaki Takada, Nagoya Univ., Aichi, Japan
12:35 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch
Session 4 - 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm - Validation Test Generation I
  • A Software Test Program Generator for Verifying System-on-Chips
    Adriel Cheng, acheng@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au, Atanas Parashkevov, Cheng-Chew Lim, The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • Stimulus Generation for Interface Protocol Verification Using the Non-Deterministic Extended Finite State Machine Model
    Che-Hua Shih, matar@eda.ee.nctu.edu.tw, Juinn-Dar Huang, Jing-Yang Jou, National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
  • DVGen: A Test Generator for the Transmeta Efficeon VLIW Processor
    Kevin D. Rich, kdrich@transmeta.com, Shankar Govindaraju, Robert Shaw, David Dobrikin, Transmeta Corp., Santa Clara, CA
3:15 pm - 3:35 pm - Break
Session 5 - 3:35 pm - 4:25 pm - Validation Test Generation II
  • Reuse in System-Level Stimuli-Generation
    Shady Copty, shady@il.ibm.com, Itai Jaeger, Yossi Lichtenstein, Yoav Katz, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Haifa, Israel, Anita Devadason, Audrey Romonosky, IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  • Harnessing Machine Learning to Improve the Success Rate of Stimuli Generation
    Ari Frueng, arief@il.ibm.com, Shai Fine, Itai Jaeger, Yehuda Naveh, Avi Ziv, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Haifa, Israel, Yishay Mansour, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel
4:25 pm - 4:45 pm - Break
Session 6 - 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm - New Approaches in Simulation
  • A New Simulation-Based Property Checking Algorithm Based on Partitioned Alternative Search Space Traversal
    Qingwei Wu, qiwu@cadence.com, Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, Michael S. Hsiao, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA
  • Validating Families of Latency Insensitive Protocols
    Syed Suhaib, ssuhaib@vt.edu, Deepak Mathaikutty, Sandeep Shukla, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, David Berner, INRIA-IRISA, France
  • GASIM: A Fast Galois Field Based Simulator for Functional Model
    Ashutosh Kumar Singh, ashutosh@unitar.edu.my, UNITAR, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Dhiraj K. Pradhan, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, T.L. Rajaprabhu, Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta, GA, Abusaleh M. Jabir, Oxford Brookes Univ., Oxford, United Kingdom
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2
  • 7:00 am - 12:00 pm - Registration
  • 7:00 am - 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
Session 7 - 8:00 am - 9:40 am - Formal Verification
  • Overlap Reduction in Symbolic System Traversal
    Prakash Mohan Perariandam, prakash@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de, P.K. Nalla, R.J. Weiss, J. Ruf, T. Kropf, W. Rosenstiel, Univ. of Teubingen, Tübingen, Germany
  • Formal Verification of High-Level Conformance with Symbolic Simulation
    Armaghan Naik, armaghan.w.naik@intel.com, Intel Corp., Hudson, MA, Roope Kaivola, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
  • A Method for Generation of GSTE Assertion
    Graphs Edward Smith, ed.smith@comlab.ox.ac.uk, Oxford Univ., Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Automatic Abstraction Refinement for Petri Nets Verification
    Zhenyu Chen, zychen@mail.edu.cn, Conghua Zhou, Decheng Ding, Nanjing Univ., China
9:40 am - 10:00 am - Break
Session 8 - 10:00 am - 11:15 am - SAT & SAT Applications
  • An Optimum Algorithm for Compacting Error Traces for Efficient Design Error Debugging
    Chia-Chih Yen, jackr@eda.ee.nctu.edu.tw, Jing-Yang Jou, National Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Increasing the Deductibility in CNF Instances for Efficient SAT-based Bounded Model Checking
    Vishnu C. Vimjam, vvimjam@vt.edu, Michael S. Hsiao, Virgina Tech., Blacksburg, VA
  • B-Cubing Theory: New Possibilities for Efficient SAT-Solving
    Alan J. Hu, ajh@cs.ubc.ca, Domagoj Babic, Jesse Bingham, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
11:15 am - 11:35 am - Break
Session 9 - 11:35 am - 12:25 pm - Security
  • Multi-level Design Validation in a Secure Embedded System
    David D. Hwang, dhwang@ee.ucla.edu, Shenglin Yang, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, Patrick Schaumont, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA
  • Security Evaluation Against Electromagnetic Analysis at Design Time
    Huiyun Li, huiyun.li@cl.cam.ac.uk, Theodore Markettos, Simon Moore, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
12:25 pm - 1:45 pm - Lunch
Session 10 - 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm - Coverage
  • Formal Meaning of Coverage Metrics in Simulation-Based Hardware Design Verification
    Pablo Sanchez, sanchez@teisa.unican.es, Iņigo Ugarte, Univ. of Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain
  • Advanced Analysis Techniques for Cross-Product Coverage
    Laurent Fournier, laurent@il.ibm.com, Hezi Aztachi, Avi Ziv, Keren Zohar, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Haifa, Israel
  • A Proof of Correctness for the Construction of Property Monitors
    Katell Morin-Allory, katell.morin-allory@imag.fr, Dominique Borrione, Tima Labs. Grenoble, Cedex, France
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm - Break
Session 11 - 3:20 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel
  • Functional Coverage: Is Your Design Exposed?
    Moderator: Andrew Piziali - Cadence Design Systems, Verification Application Specialist, Plano, TX
    Panelists: Neyaz Khan - Cadence Design Systems, Plano, TX
    Laurent Fournier - IBM, Haifa, Israel
    Gery Osowiecki - Texas Instruments, Plano, TX
    Tom Anderson - Synopsys, San Jose, CA
    Mike Miller - Intel, Hillsboro, OR