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  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Paths
  • Glossary
  • Metrics Reference
  • Formal Cheat Sheet
  • Formal Foundations19
  • Properties and SVA16
  • Property Development and Constraints19
  • Proof Engines and Convergence23
  • Formal Applications20
  • Equivalence Checking14
  • Formal Coverage and Signoff15
    • Cover Properties, Vacuity and Reachability
    • Formal Coverage Metrics
    • Bounded Proof Signoff
    • The Formal Signoff Package
      • The Signoff Checklist in Full
      • Worked Signoff of sync_fifo
      • Formal and Simulation, One Ledger
  • Methodology and Debug13
  • Interview Prep15
  • Capstone: A Chip-Block Verification Lab24
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  3. Formal Coverage and Signoff
  4. The Formal Signoff Package

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The Formal Signoff Package

Assemble every proof, cover, assumption and waiver into one package a reviewer can defend.

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Sign-off is not a meeting; it is a package. One ledger of results, one register of assumptions, one coverage report, one waiver file, all tied to one source hash. This topic assembles that package for the four-entry FIFO end to end, then shows where formal evidence meets simulation evidence in a single ledger. Every line of the checklist points at the lesson that teaches it, so a reviewer can drill from any claim to its evidence in one step.

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The Signoff Checklist in Full

Walk the complete checklist and cite the evidence behind each line.

Worked Signoff of sync_fifo

Assemble a real package: proofs, covers, assumption register, mutation score, bound and ledger gate.

Formal and Simulation, One Ledger

Assign each obligation to a method with no gaps and no double-counting.

Suggested order: top to bottom. The checklist first, because it names everything; the worked FIFO package next, because it fills every line with real runs; the joint ledger last, because it places the formal package inside the wider verification sign-off.

On the left, the results ledger leads to the coverage report. On the right, the assumption register leads to the waivers with evidence. Both sides join in one package, which supports the sign-off defence.
The four parts of a sign-off package: what was proven and how well it was examined on the left, what the proofs rest on and what stays open on the right.
Check yourself A package has proofs and covers but no assumption register. What is missing?

The discharge story: which environment rules each proof relied on, where each is proved elsewhere, and what input classes were excluded. Without it the proofs are conditional on undocumented terms.

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See also

  • Cover Properties, Vacuity and Reachability
  • Formal Coverage Metrics
  • Bounded Proof Signoff