Race analysis for systemc using model checking

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Blanc, Nicolas ^a   Kroening, Daniel ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formal analysis; Model checking; Partial order reduction; Simulation; SystemC

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; CONTEXT SWITCH; DESIGN FLAWS; DETERMINISTIC SCHEDULING; FORMAL ANALYSIS; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; PARTIAL ORDER REDUCTIONS; PARTIAL-ORDER REDUCTION; RACE CONDITION; RUNTIMES; SYSTEM-LEVEL MODELING; SYSTEMC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGIC DESIGN; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 77953587427     PISSN: 10844309     EISSN: 15577309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1754405.1754406     Document Type: Article

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