Functional semantics of microprocessors at the microprogram level and correspondence with the machine instruction level

Authors:
Hélène Collavizza
Affiliations:
Université de Provence, Case S, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3, France
Venue:
EURO-DAC '90 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
Year:
1990

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Abstract

In order to apply formal verification methods to actual microprocessors, we study the functional semantics of microprocessors of the "Von Neumann Machine" type, at different specification and description levels.We settle a functional formalism from which the semantic equivalence between adjacent levels will be proved.Here, we propose a general methodology to define the functional semantics of a processor at the Microprogram level. We also present the correspondence between this level and the Machine Instruction level.