A Practical Introduction to PSL

This book describes the Property Specification Language PSL, recently standardized as IEEE Standard 1850-2005. PSL was developed to fulfill the following requirements: easy to learn, write, and read., concise syntax., rigorously well-defined formal semantics., expressive power, permitting the specification for a large class of real world design properties., known efficient underlying algorithms in simulation, as well as formal verification. Basic features are covered, as well as advanced topics such as the use of PSL in multiply-clocked designs. A full chapter is devoted to common errors, gathered through the authors' many years of experience in using and teaching the language.

The primary audience is engineers involved in the design and verification of hardware. A secondary audience is students of temporal logic