Formal verification is becoming more and more important in the production of high integrity microprocessors. The general purpose formal method called Event-B is the latest incarnation of the B Method: it is a proof-ba...
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Formal verification is becoming more and more important in the production of high integrity microprocessors. The general purpose formal method called Event-B is the latest incarnation of the B Method: it is a proof-based approach with a formal notation and refinement technique for modelling and verifying systems. Refinement enables implementation-level features to be proven correct with respect to an abstract specification of the system. In this paper we demonstrate an initial attempt to model and verify Sandia National Laboratories' Score processor using Event-B. The processor is an (almost complete) implementation of a Java Virtual Machine in hardware. Thus, refinement-based verification of the Score processor begins with a formal specification of Java bytecode. Traditionally, B has been directed at the formal development of software systems. The use of B in hardware verification could provide a means of developing combined software/hardware systems, i.e. codesign.
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are a new and very challenging research field for embedded system design automation, as their design must enforce stringent constraints in terms of power and cost. WSN node devices have ...
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(纸本)9781450300025
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are a new and very challenging research field for embedded system design automation, as their design must enforce stringent constraints in terms of power and cost. WSN node devices have until now been designed using off-the-shelf low-power microcontroller units (MCUs), even if their power dissipation is still an issue and hinders the wide-spreading of this new technology. In this paper, we propose a new architectural model for WSN nodes (and its complete design-flow from C downto synthesizable VHDL) based on the notion of micro-tasks. Our approach combines hardware specialization and power-gating so as to provide an ultra low-power solution for WSN node design. Our first estimates show that power savings by one to two orders of magnitude are possible w.r.t. MCU-based implementations.
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