Summary

Hardbound. The papers of this seventh conference reflect the gradual shift from the original emphasis on the uses of language design to describe hardware, toward more formal techniques for specification and verification.This volume highlights the following topics: - Languages to specify and describe hardware design, to reason about timing and functional behaviour, and to support modelling and performance evaluation - Synthesis and verification of systems as means of support for the design process, and as a guarantee of design consistency and functional correctness - Tool Integration aspects such as the representation of design information, and the putting together of tools within a coherent design environment.