Kroening, 2001 - Google Patents
Formal verification of pipelined microprocessorsKroening, 2001
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Subject of this thesis is the formal verification of pipelined microprocessors. This includes processors with state of the art schedulers, such as the Tomasulo scheduler and speculation. In contrast to most of the literature, we verify synthesizable design at gate level …
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