  This paper presents CREST, a prototype front-end tool intended as an add-on
to commercial EDA formal verifcation environments. CREST is an adaptation of
the CBMC bounded model checker for C, an academic tool widely used in industry
for software analysis and property verification. It leverages the capabilities
of CBMC to process hardware datapath specifications written in arbitrary
ANSI-C, without limiting restrictions to a synthesizable subset. We briefly
sketch the architecture of our tool and show its use in a range of verification
case studies.
