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INTRODUCTION
Part Iof this article provided a consolidated approach to understand verification tools and methodologies that applies a set of pre-defined power aware (PA) or multi-voltage (MV) rules based on the power requirements, statically on the structures of the design. More precisely, the rule sets are applied on the physical structure, architecture, and microarchitecture of the design, in conjunction with the UPF specification but without the requirements of any external stimulus or testbenches. This actually makes the PA-Static tool simpler and a popular choice to verify various features of UPF strategies (e.g., UPF strategy definitions are correct, incorrect, missing, or redundant, MV cells are correct, incorrect, missing, or
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