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An approach for the verification of systemc designs using asml

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Sofiène TaharAuthors Info & Claims

ATVA'05: Proceedings of the Third international conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis

Pages 69 - 83

https://doi.org/10.1007/11562948_8

Published: 04 October 2005 Publication History

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The spectacular advancement in microelectronics resulted in the creation of new system level design languages, such as SystemC, which put fourth new design and verification challenges. In this paper, we present an approach verifying SystemC designs using model checking and assertion based verification. Such verification is enabled through two transformations from SystemC to AsmL (the Abstract State Machines Language) and vice-versa. The soundness of these transformations, proved using abstract interpretation, guarantees the correctness of the model checking results and the validity of the generated assertion monitors (to be checked by simulation). We illustrate our approach on the SystemC/AsmL modeling and verification of the widely used Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) standard. The verified AGP model can be either refined to implement an AGP core or used to validate existent compatible device.

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ATVA'05: Proceedings of the Third international conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis

October 2005

505 pages

ISBN:3540292098

Editors:
Doron A. Peled
Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Yih-Kuen Tsay
Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, Ramat Gan, Taiwan

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Academia Sinica: Academia Sinica
National Taiwan University
Institute of Information Science: Institute of Information Science
National Science Council: National Science Council (Taiwan)

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-50521-8_9
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_1
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