Complete Symbolic Simulation of SystemC Models: Efficient Formal Verification of Finite Non-Terminating Programs (BestMasters) - Softcover

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Vladimir Herdt is working as Research Assistant in the Group of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen, where he is pursuing his PhD degree. 

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In hismaster thesis, Vladimir Herdt presents a novel approach, called completesymbolic simulation, for a more efficient verification ofmuch larger (non-terminating) SystemC programs. Theapproach combines symbolic simulation with stateful model checking and allowsto verify safety properties in (cyclic) finite state spaces, by exhaustiveexploration of all possible inputs and process schedulings. The state explosionproblem is alleviated by integrating two complementary reduction techniques. Comparedto existing approaches, the complete symbolic simulation works more efficiently,and therefore can provide correctness proofs for larger systems, which is oneof the most challenging tasks, due to the ever increasing complexity.

Contents

• Verification of Systems
  
• Introduction toFormal Verification of SystemC Models
  
• Symbolic ModelChecking with Partial Order Reduction
• Efficient SymbolicState Matching using State Subsumption
• Heuristic Approachesfor Symbolic State Matching
• Evaluation ofProposed Techniques

 TargetGroups

• Lecturers and Studentsof Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering
• Hardware Designersand Verification Engineers using SystemC

TheAuthor

Vladimir Herdt is working as ResearchAssistant in the Group of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen,where he is pursuing his PhD degree.