Deadlock verification of cache coherence protocols and communication fabrics

F Verbeek, PM Yaghini, A Eghbal… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cache coherence plays a major role in manycore systems. The verification of deadlocks is a
challenge in particular, because deadlock freedom is an emerging property. Formal …

Accelerating NoC Verification Using a Complete Model and Active Window

S Das, C Karfa, S Biswas - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents formal modeling of Network-on-Chip (NoC) considering detailed
functional units of NoC. The intricate modeling of NoC router components like buffer, switch …

Estimating worst-case latency of on-chip interconnects with formal simulation

F Verbeek, N van Vugt - 2017 Formal Methods in Computer …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Latency is a major issue in the design and validation of a Network-on-Chip (NoC). Various
techniques for establishing latency bounds exist. Formal and mathematical methods, such …

[PDF][PDF] Sound idle and block equations for finite state machines in xMAS

A Fedotov, JJA Keiren, J Schmaltz - 2019 - research.tue.nl
The xMAS language allows the high-level modeling of communication fabrics. For
microarchitectural models expressed in xMAS, it was shown that liveness can be proven …

[PDF][PDF] Effective System Level Liveness Verification

A Fedotov, JJA Keiren, J Schmaltz - # …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
The language xMAS has been designed by Intel with the purpose of modelling and
verification of hardware. Recently, the language was extended with finite state machines to …

[PDF][PDF] Verification Techniques for xMAS

A Fedotov - 2022 - research.tue.nl
When I, as a kid, was being asked who I wanted to become when I grow up, I was always
answering without any doubt–a researcher (and I must say that it was an unusual answer …

[PDF][PDF] An Efficient and Modular Approach for Formally Verifying Cache Implementations

AA Bharadwaj, SS Bindumadhava - dvcon-proceedings.org
Formal verification (FV) has been a proven methodology to expose deep corner cases,
guarantee high design confidence and generate significant Return on Investments (RoI)[2] …