Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design : Second International Conference FMCAD’ 98 Palo Alto CA USA November 4–6 1998 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design FMCAD 98 held in Palo Alto California USA in November 1998. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. Also included are four tools papers and four invited contributions. The papers present the state of the art in formal verification methods for digital circuits and systems including processors custom VLSI circuits microcode and reactive software. From the methodological point of view binary decision diagrams model checking symbolic reasoning symbolic simulation and abstraction methods are covered