Scalable hybrid verification of complex microprocessors

  • Authors:
  • Maher Mneimneh;Fadi Aloul;Chris Weaver;Saugata Chatterjee;Karem Sakallah;Todd Austin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan;University of Michigan;University of Michigan;University of Michigan;University of Michigan;University of Michigan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We introduce a new verification methodology for modern micro-processors that uses a simple checker processor to validate the exe-cution of a companion high-performance processor. The checker can be viewed as an at-speed emulator that is formally verified to be compliant to an ISA specification. This verification approach en-ables the practical deployment of formal methods without impact-ing overall performance.