A complete compositional reasoning framework for the efficient verification of pipelined machines

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 863-870

  Manolios, Panagiotis ^a   Srinivasan, Sudarshan K ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECISION THEORY; SET THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITIONAL PROOF RULES; SET ARCHITECTURES;

PIPING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751405620     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2005.1560183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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