# POWER-FV – Assertion-based formal verification library for OpenPOWER processors
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## Disclaimer
*This project is currently in an experimental state. In particular:
- it has only been tried on the Microwatt CPU
- it assumes an in-order scalar core
- its instruction coverage is limited to the Scalar Fixed-point Compliancy Subset
- the correctness of its own specifications hasn't yet been verified*
## Overview
POWER-FV is a formal verification library that can be used to check the compliance of a processor with the OpenPOWER ISA. It provides an interface to trace the execution of a processor, which is monitored by a testbench and compared against a given specification.
Testbenches and behavioral models are implemented in Python using [Amaranth HDL](https://github.com/amaranth-lang/amaranth), and [SymbiYosys](https://github.com/YosysHQ/sby) for its formal verification flow. Processor cores may use any HDL supported by Yosys.
POWER-FV's design is heavily inspired by the [riscv-formal](https://github.com/YosysHQ/riscv-formal) framework, developed by Claire Wolf (YosysHQ).