Harry Foster

Realizing a Dream: A Journey Through My Eyes. Living in Ottawa in the 70s, in a nice neighbourhood with great neighbours, we were thinking of building a passive solar house as the oil prices kept inching up and up. This meant the house would have to basically face south, with most of the windows facing that way, too. We had fallen in love with the Ottawa River by canoeing it from Matawa to Montreal, so our first choice of a property would be on the Quebec side of the river, within commuting distance of Ottawa. This book is about realizing that dream and me, as a photographer, recording all that we loved about living there. This includes wildlife (both animals and birds), storms, good weather, sailboats, planes and every other mode of transport. These photos cover a good slice of the 44 years we have lived here.

Realizing a Dream: A Journey Through My Eyes. Living in Ottawa in the 70s, in a nice neighbourhood with great neighbours, we were thinking of building a passive solar house as the oil prices kept inching up and up. This meant the house would have to basically face south, with most of the windows facing that way, too. We had fallen in love with the Ottawa River by canoeing it from Matawa to Montreal, so our first choice of a property would be on the Quebec side of the river, within commuting distance of Ottawa. This book is about realizing that dream and me, as a photographer, recording all that we loved about living there. This includes wildlife (both animals and birds), storms, good weather, sailboats, planes and every other mode of transport. These photos cover a good slice of the 44 years we have lived here.

This book is about some of the adventures Paulene and I had together. The last 5 were by canoe, as we wanted to experience to a degree what the explorers and Indigenous people before them went through, as they traveled the rivers and lakes that would take them into the interior of Canada.

Southport is a 19th-century town which grew up on a thinly populated coast of sandy dunes. It is a region where landscape has played a dominant role and this new account of the area's past places the modern town inside a longer chronological narrative. South Port first developed as a bathing resort before becoming a desirable place to live. It was a product of the 19th century, and it is no surprise that this period has been the most extensively reported of the town's history, but the opportunity is taken here to consider areas and issues that had previously been relatively ignored. The 20th century, during which time Southport became established as a high-class residential town, has attracted less attention from historians. It is an omission addressed in a book which complements existing works but differs substantially from them. The post-1974 account of Southport into Sefton, for example, brings the story up to the present day. As well as placing Southport within a broader historical framework, this new study also deals with all the various parts of the town, including the suburbs of Birkdale and Ainsdale.

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1 Introduction.- 1.1 Property checking.- 1.2 Verification techniques.- 1.3 What is an assertion?.- 1.3.1 A historical perspective.- 1.3.2 Do assertions really work?.- 1.3.3 What are the benefits of assertions?.- 1.3.4 Why are assertions not used?.- 1.4 Phases of the design process.- 1.4.1 Ensuring requirements are satisfied.- 1.4.2 Techniques for ensuring consistency.- 1.4.3 Roles and ownership.- 1.5 Summary.- 2 Assertion Methodology.- 2.1 Design methodology.- 2.1.1 Project planning.- Project documents.- EDA and internal tools.- RTL styles and conventions.- Support infrastructure.- Partner coordination.- 2.1.2 Design requirements.- 2.1.3 Design documents.- 2.1.4 Design reviews.- 2.1.5 Design validation.- 2.2 Assertion methodology for new designs.- 2.2.1 Key learnings.- 2.2.2 Best practices.- 2.2.3 Assertion density.- 2.2.4 Process for adding assertions.- 2.2.5 When not to add assertions.- 2.3 Assertion methodology for existing designs.- 2.4 Assertions and simulation.- 2.5 Assertions and formal verification.- 2.5.1 Formal verification framework.- 2.5.2 Formal methodology.- 2.5.3 ECC example.- 2.6 Summary.- 3 Specifying RTL Properties.- 3.1 Definitions and concepts.- 3.1.1 Property.- 3.1.2 Events.- 3.2 Property classification.- 3.2.1 Safety versus liveness.- 3.2.2 Constraint versus assertion.- 3.2.3 Declarative versus procedural.- 3.3 RTL assertion specification techniques.- 3.3.1 RTL invariant assertions.- OVL invariant 6.- PSL invariant 7.- 3.3.2 Declaring properties with PSL.- 3.3.3 RTL cycle related assertions.- 3.3.4 PSL and default clock declaration.- 3.3.5 Specifying sequences.- Declaring sequences within PSL 8.- Sequence operators within PSL 8.- Checking sequences with the OVL 8.- 3.3.6 Specifying eventualities.- OVL event bounded window checkers 8.- 3.3.7 PSL built-in functions.- 3.4 Pragma-based assertions.- 3.5 SystemVerilog assertions.- 3 5 1 Immediate assertions.- 3.5.2 Concurrent assertions.- Sequence declaration 9.- Sequence operations 9.- Repetition operators 9.- First match operator 9.- Throughout operators 9.- Dynamic variables within sequences 9.- 3.5.3 System functions.- 3.6 PCI property specification example.- 3.6.1 PCI overview.- 3.7 Summary.- 4 PLI-Based Assertions.- 4.1 Procedural assertions.- 4.1.1 A simple PLI assertion.- Checktf routine 11.- Calltf routine 11.- 4.1.2 Assertions within a simulation time slot.- Nested PLI assertion problem 11.- 4.1.3 Assertions across simulation time slots.- Controlling assertion evaluations by a clock 11.- 4.1.4 False firing across multiple time slots.- 4.2 PLI-based assertion library.- 4.2.1 Assert quiescent state.- 4.3 Summary.- 5 Functional Coverage.- 5.1 Verification approaches.- 5.2 Understanding coverage.- 5.2.1 Controllability versus observability.- 5.2.2 Types of traditional coverage metrics.- 5.2.3 What is functional coverage?.- 5.2.4 Building functional coverage models.- 5.2.5 Sources of functional coverage.- 5.3 Does functional coverage really work?.- 5.3.1 Benefits of functional coverage.- 5.3.2 Success stories.- 5.3.3 Why is functional coverage not used.- 5.4 Functional coverage methodology.- 5.4.1 Steps to functional coverage.- 5.4.2 Correct coverage density.- 5.4.3 Incorrect coverage density.- 5.4.4 Coverage analysis.- Coverage data organization 15.- Tracking functional coverage 15.- Actions to take 15.- 5.4.5 Coverage best practices.- 5.4.6 Coverage-driven test generation.- 5.5 Specifying functional coverage.- 5.5.1 Embedded in the RTL.- 5.5.2 Functional coverage libraries.- 5.5.3 Assertion-based methods.- 5.5.4 Post processing.- 5.5.5 PLI logging and reporting.- 5.5.6 Simulation control.- 5.6 Functional coverage examples.- 5.7 AHB example.- 5.8 Summary.- 6 Assertion Patterns.- 6.1 Introduction to patterns.- 6.1.1 What are assertion patterns?.- 6.1.2 Elements of an assertion pattern.- 6.2 Signal patterns.- 6.2.1 X detection pattern.- 6.2.2 Valid range pattern.- 6.2.3 One-hot pattern.- 6.2.4 Gray-code pattern.- 6.3 Set patterns.- 6.3.1 Valid opcode pat...