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Date: 2012-03-08T10:23:04-05:00
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On 2012-03-08 04:04, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> Oh.  And who verifies that the silicon is correct?

I have the impression that the hardware people routinely use model 
checking techniques to verify designs. I don't know much about it, however.

Peter