Towards a formal theory of on chip communications in the ACL2 logic
Julien Schmaltz, D. Borrione · 2006
This paper is devoted to the expression for a formal theory of communication networks in the ACL2 logic. More precisely, we have developed a generic model called GeNoC, in a general mathematical notation, with the use of quantification over variables as well as over functions. We present here its expression in the first order quantifier free logic of the ACL2 theorem prover. We describe our systematic approach to cast it into ACL2, especially how we use the encapsulation principle to obtain a systematic methodology to specify and validate on chip communications architectures. We summarize the different instances of GeNoC developed so far in ACL2, some come from industrial designs. We illustrate our approach on an XY routing algorithm.