Design and Verification of Microprocessor Systems for High-Assurance Applications
Editors: Hardin, David S. (Ed.)
Free Preview- 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
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Design and Verification of Microprocessor Systems for High-Assurance Applications
Edited by:
David S. Hardin
This book examines several leading-edge design and verification technologies that have been successfully applied to microprocessor systems for high-assurance applications at various levels – from arithmetic circuits to microcode to instruction sets to operating systems to applications. We focus on recent hardware, software, and system designs that have actually been built and deployed, and feature systems that have been certified at high Evaluation Assurance Levels, namely the Rockwell Collins AAMP7G microprocessor (EAL7) and the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B separation kernel (EAL6+). The contributing authors to this book have endeavored to bring forth truly new material on significant, modern design and verification efforts; many of the results described herein were obtained only within the past year.
- Offers practical case studies of the successful application of formal methods at several different levels of real-world microprocessor system design;
- Discusses high-robustness design techniques that support formal verification;
- Shows how "Design for Verification" can become "Design with Verification", using modern verification tool suites that can readily import engineering designs;
- Features chapters written by practitioners who have achieved the highest assurance Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) certifications defined by the Common Criteria;
- Formally develops the "GWV" family of information flow theorems used in recent EAL6+ and EAL7 certifications;
- Explains how designs expressed in new model-based development languages can be analyzed and verified;
- Demonstrates ways in which various kinds of formal verification tools can be utilized in combination to achieve a final verification result.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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ACL2 and Its Applications to Digital System Verification
Pages 1-21
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A Mechanically Verified Commercial SRT Divider
Pages 23-63
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Use of Formal Verification at Centaur Technology
Pages 65-88
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Designing Tunable, Verifiable Cryptographic Hardware Using Cryptol
Pages 89-143
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Verifying Pipelines with BAT
Pages 145-174
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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- Book Title
- Design and Verification of Microprocessor Systems for High-Assurance Applications
- Editors
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- David S. Hardin
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag US
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4419-1539-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-1539-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-1538-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4899-8459-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 436
- Topics