ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Intel's Formal Verification Experience on the Willamette Development
TPHOLs '00 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
Validating the Intel® Pentium® 4 Microprocessor
DSN '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly: FTCS)
High level formal verification of next-generation microprocessors
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Formal Verification of the Pentium® 4 Floating-Point Multiplier
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
High level validation of next-generation microprocessors
HLDVT '02 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop
Shielding against design flaws with field repairable control logic
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Automatic verification of safety and liveness for pipelined machines using WEB refinement
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
CAV '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
SAT-Solving in Practice, with a Tutorial Example from Supervisory Control
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Refinement and theorem proving
SFM'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems
A scalable and nearly uniform generator of SAT witnesses
CAV'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
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The microprocessor presents one of the most challenging design problems known to modern engineering. The number of transistors in each new process generation continues to follow the growth curve outlined by Gordon Moore 40 years ago. Microarchitecture complexity has increased immeasurably since the introduction of out-of-order speculative execution designs in the mid-90s; and subsequent enhancements such as Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology, Extended Memory 64 Technology and ever-deeper pipelining indicate that there are no signs of a slowdown any time soon. Power has become a first-order concern thanks to a 20x increase in operating frequencies in the past decade and leakier transistors at smaller geometries, and the various schemes for managing and reducing power while retaining peak performance have added their own dimensions of complexity.