Refinement-Based Formal Verification of Asynchronous Wrappers for Independently Clocked Domains in Systems on Chip

  • Authors:
  • Xiaohua Kong;Radu Negulescu;Larry Weidong Ying

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CHARME '01 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel refinement-based technique to formally verify data transfer in an asynchronous timing framework. Novel data transfer models are proposed to represent data communication between two locally independent clock domains. As a case study, we apply our technique to verify data transfer in a previously published architecture for globally asynchronous locally synchronous on-chip systems. In this case study, we find several race conditions, hazards, and other dangers that were not mentioned in the original publication, and we find additional delay constraints that avoid some of the detected dangers.