Overview
- Offers practical case studies of the successful application of formal methods at several different levels of microprocessor system design
- Discusses high-robustness design techniques that support formal verification
- Shows how "Design for Verification" can become "Design With Verification"
- Features chapters written by practitioners who have achieved the highest assurance Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) certifications defined by the Common Criteria
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Microprocessors increasingly control and monitor our most critical systems, including automobiles, airliners, medical systems, transportation grids, and defense systems. The relentless march of semiconductor process technology has given engineers exponentially increasing transistor budgets at constant recurring cost. This has encouraged increased functional integration onto a single die, as well as increased architectural sophistication of the functional units themselves. Additionally, design cycle times are decreasing, thus putting increased schedule pressure on engineers. Not surprisingly, this environment has led to a number of uncaught design flaws. Traditional simulation-based design verification has not kept up with the scale or pace of modern microprocessor system design. Formal verification methods offer the promise of improved bug-finding capability, as well as the ability to establish functional correctness of a detailed design relative to a high-level specification. However, widespread use of formal methods has had to await breakthroughs in automated reasoning, integration with engineering design languages and processes, scalability, and usability.
This book presents several breakthrough design and verification techniques that allow these powerful formal methods to be employed in the real world of high-assurance microprocessor system design.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design and Verification of Microprocessor Systems for High-Assurance Applications
Editors: David S. Hardin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1539-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1538-2Published: 15 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8459-3Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1539-9Published: 02 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 436
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk