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Course contents

  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Paths
  • Concept Map
  • Meet DCRouter
  • Glossary
  • Part 0: What Verification Is8
  • Part 1: What Can Go Wrong11
  • Part 2: Specifications as Checkable Rules8
  • Part 3: Observability and Controllability7
  • Part 4: Stimulus11
  • Part 5: Checking11
  • Part 6: Coverage10
  • Part 7: Formal and Simulation10
  • Part 8: Verification Levels and Reuse8
  • Part 9: Planning and Risk9
  • Part 10: Emulation and Prototyping8
  • Part 11: Post-Silicon Validation8
  • Part 12: Bug Economics8
  • Part 13: Debug7
  • Part 14: Sign-Off7
  • Part 15: Verification in Context8
  • Part 16: Case Studies5
    • How to Read an Escape
    • The Pentium FDIV Bug
    • A Chipset Recall
    • Speculative Execution Attacks
    • Writing a Post-Mortem
  • Part 17: Capstones5
  • Part 18: Interview Preparation6
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‹First Principles of Verification Strategy
  1. Topics
  2. First Principles of Verification Strategy
  3. Part 16: Case Studies

Part 16 · Case Studies · All levels

Part 16: Case Studies

What can real projects teach us? Read a public escape through the course's questions.

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    Part 16 answers: What can real projects teach us?

    Public escapes are the most expensive lessons in the industry, already paid for. Each case study here is limited to what is publicly documented and read through the course's questions: what went wrong, why the verification did not catch it, and what changed afterwards.

    After this part you can

    • Read a public escape through the course's questions.

    • Write a post-mortem that leads to concrete changes.

    • Connect each escape to the technique that would have caught it.

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    Lesson

    Level

    Status

    16.1

    How to Read an Escape

    S · Senior

    Ready

    16.2

    The Pentium FDIV Bug

    S · Senior

    Ready

    16.3

    A Chipset Recall

    S · Senior

    Ready

    16.4

    Speculative Execution Attacks

    P · Principal

    Ready

    16.5

    Writing a Post-Mortem

    P · Principal

    Ready

    Every lesson in this part is ready. Work through them in order: each one sets up the problem the next one solves.

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    • How to Use This Course
    • Reading Paths
    • Concept Map