The Design and Verification of FPGA CAD Toolset

This paper introduces a complete CAD toolset for the implementation of digital logic in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform. Compared with existing academic toolsets, this toolset introduces formal verification in each step of the tool flow, especially the formal verification of the configuration bitstream. The FPGA CAD tool verification flow using Formality is presented in detail. Using plug-in technology, we have developed an integrated FPGA design kit to incorporate all tools together.