Patterns for property specification enable non-experts to write formal specifications that can be used for automatic model checking. The existing patterns identified in [6] allow ...
Secrecy properties can be guaranteed through a combination of static and dynamic checks. The static checks may include the application of special type systems with notions of secr...
A Software Architecture is the overall structure of a system in terms of its constituent components and their interconnections. In this paper, we describe work to associate behavi...
—Verification is a major issue in circuit and system design. Formal methods like bounded model checking (BMC) can guarantee a high quality of the verification. There are severa...
Functional validation is a major bottleneck in pipelined processor design. Simulation using functional test vectors is the most widely used form of processor validation. While exi...