LusSy: An open tool for the analysis of systems-on-a-chip at the transaction level

Design Automation for Embedded Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 73-104

  Moy, Matthieu ^a   Maraninchi, Florence ^a   Maillet Contoz, Laurent ^b  

^a VERIMAG   (France)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

Author keywords

Formal verification; Lussy; Model checking; Pinapa; Semantics; SystemC

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SEMANTICS;

FORMAL VERIFICATION; LUSSY; MODEL-CHECKING; PINAPA; SYSTEMC;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749017914     PISSN: 09295585     EISSN: 15728080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10617-006-9044-6     Document Type: Article

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