Giulia Solito
Reset sequence analysis for deep bug hunting Exploring the use of reset sequences in hardware verification.
Rel. Guido Masera. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica (Electronic Engineering), 2026
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Over the past two decades, the growing complexity of modern processor architectures, characterized by deep pipelines, speculative execution and intricate control logic, has shifted the critical challenge of hardware development from design to verification. This shift has increased the demand for more rigorous verification methodologies, leading to the widespread adoption of Formal Verification alongside traditional simulation. Formal Verification relies on mathematical techniques to exhaustively analyze the space of possible behaviors of a design, rather than computing results for particular input stimuli. Despite its strength, it is limited by the well-known state explosion problem, a phenomenon consisting in the exponential growth of reachable states, thus motivating the development of hybrid and semi-formal approaches.
This thesis investigates the use of semi-formal techniques to enhance deep bug hunting, an approach aimed at uncovering corner cases that may remain undetected through simulation alone
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