Exact and efficient verification of parameterized cache coherence protocols

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2860, Issue , 2003, Pages 247-262

  Emerson, E Allen ^a   Kahlon, Vineet ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CACHE MEMORY; DESIGN; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

ALGORITHMIC METHODS; BROADCAST PROTOCOLS; CACHE COHERENCE PROTOCOLS; LIVENESS PROPERTIES; PARAMETERIZED CACHE COHERENCE PROTOCOLS; PARAMETERIZED REASONINGS; PARAMETERIZED VERIFICATIONS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME ALGORITHMS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142152293     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39724-3_22     Document Type: Article

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