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The verification of hardware systems has recently become an attractive application area for theorem provers for several reasons. First, hardware verification is in many ways a more tractable problem than software (program) verification — it is often easier to write a clear specification that captures the functionality of a system of hardware than of software — and hardware proofs tend to have a certain uniformity of structure which is well suited to mechanical treatment. Second, compelling economic reasons exist for trying to get hardware correct early on; correcting errors in a chip can involve expensive refabrication, not merely the exiting of text. Finally, it is becoming increasingly important to invest time and effort in the verification of hardware that is intended for safety-critical applications.
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Cohn, A. (1993). The Notion of Proof in Hardware Verification. In: Colburn, T.R., Fetzer, J.H., Rankin, T.L. (eds) Program Verification. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1793-7_16
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