According to one embodiment of the invention, a high pressure anneal is utilized to form titanium silicide at the bottom of a contact hole, at a pressure of at least approximately 1. In one embodiment, the method includes automatically decomposing a hardware system into a set of one or more units, creating a test-bench for each of the set of units, and verifying each of the set of units before verifying the hardware system design. In another known one of the time slots, a synchronization signal, S2, is transmitted that comprises a pair of sequences arranged in a second ordering.