Birtwistle, GrahamGraham, BrianMelham, TomSchediwy, Rich2008-02-272008-02-271988-10-01http://hdl.handle.net/1880/45726Hardware verification is the art of proving formally that, to within the tolerance of an underlying model, a design meets (or perhaps does not meet) its specification. This paper is an introduction to hardware verification and its limitations. We illustrate the technique by specifying and verifying an $x$ or gate and a ripple carry sub-system using the HOL notation, (see [2,8,9]), and then demonstrate its capabilities with sample applications to VLSI CAD and system re-implementation.EngComputer Scienceunknown1988-328-4010.11575/PRISM/30382