Design and verification of microprocessor systemsfor high-assurance applications

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 ledto 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 adetailed 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. 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 haveachieved the highest assurance Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) certifications defined by the Common Criteria INDICE: Introduction.- Tools of the Trade.- MicroArchitecture.- Data Flow.- Control Flow.- Memory.- Information Flow.- Microcode Verification.- MacroArchitecture.- High-Level Language Verification.- Operating System Kernels.- HighAssurance Applications.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-1538-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 390
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés