Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods

Invited Talks.- What Is beyond the RTL Horizon for Microprocessor and System Design?.- The Charme of Abstract Entities.- Tutorial.- The PSL/Sugar Specification Language A Language for all Seasons.- Software Verification.- Finding Regularity: Describing and Analysing Circuits That Are Not Quite Regular.- Predicate Abstraction with Minimum Predicates.- Efficient Symbolic Model Checking of Software Using Partial Disjunctive Partitioning.- Processor Verification.- Instantiating Uninterpreted Functional Units and Memory System: Functional Verification of the VAMP.- A Hazards-Based Correctness Statement for Pipelined Circuits.- Analyzing the Intel Itanium Memory Ordering Rules Using Logic Programming and SAT.- Automata Based Methods.- On Complementing Nondeterministic Büchi Automata.- Coverage Metrics for Formal Verification.- “More Deterministic” vs. “Smaller” Büchi Automata for Efficient LTL Model Checking.- Short Papers 1.- An Optimized Symbolic Bounded Model Checking Engine.- Constrained Symbolic Simulation with Mathematica and ACL2.- Semi-formal Verification of Memory Systems by Symbolic Simulation.- CTL May Be Ambiguous When Model Checking Moore Machines.- Specification Methods.- Reasoning about GSTE Assertion Graphs.- Towards Diagrammability and Efficiency in Event Sequence Languages.- Executing the Formal Semantics of the Accellera Property Specification Language by Mechanised Theorem Proving.- Protocol Verification.- On Combining Symmetry Reduction and Symbolic Representation for Efficient Model Checking.- On the Correctness of an Intrusion-Tolerant Group Communication Protocol.- Exact and Efficient Verification of Parameterized Cache Coherence Protocols.- Short Papers 2.- Design and Implementation of an Abstract Interpreter for VHDL.- A ProgrammingLanguage Based Analysis of Operand Forwarding.- Integrating RAM and Disk Based Verification within the Mur? Verifier.- Design and Verification of CoreConnectTM IP Using Esterel.- Theorem Proving.- Inductive Assertions and Operational Semantics.- A Compositional Theory of Refinement for Branching Time.- Linear and Nonlinear Arithmetic in ACL2.- Bounded Model Checking.- Efficient Distributed SAT and SAT-Based Distributed Bounded Model Checking.- Convergence Testing in Term-Level Bounded Model Checking.- The ROBDD Size of Simple CNF Formulas.- Model Checking and Application.- Efficient Hybrid Reachability Analysis for Asynchronous Concurrent Systems.- Finite Horizon Analysis of Markov Chains with the Mur? Verifier.- Improved Symbolic Verification Using Partitioning Techniques.