Hybrid techniques are effective for exploring interesting corner cases, coverage holes, invariant variations, and so forth, in the general area of directed functional validation. However, despite the emergence of several effective hybrid validation techniques, several questions still remain. The five articles in this special issue help explain some of the different facets of this area.
Index Terms:
hybrid technique, functional validation, simulation, formal verification
Citation:
Jayanta Bhadra, Magdy S. Abadir, Li-C. Wang, "Guest Editors' Introduction: Attacking Functional Verification through Hybrid Techniques," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 110-111, June 2007, doi:10.1109/MDT.2007.45