Verification of the Futurebus+ cache coherence protocol: a case study in model checking

  • Authors:
  • Kylie Williams;Robert Esser

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia;University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ACSC '04 Proceedings of the 27th Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 26
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a case study for automatic verification using the Communicating Sequential Processes formalism. The case study concerns the Futurebus+ cache coherency standard; we develop a formal model of the protocol and perform some verification tasks upon it. In the process of doing so, we extend the previous solution by developing a formal specification of cache coherence that is suitable for the verification of both directory and snooping based cache coherence protocols.