Accelerating Computer Architecture Development using Formal Methods
Vijay Kumar Pandey, J Gowrishankar, Sneha Kashyap · 2024
Formal strategies are getting more and more crucial within the design, verification, and validation of computer architectures and future hardware systems. Formal strategies provide a scientific approach to specification, verification, and validation of PC architectures, which allow engineers to carefully prove residences of laptop architectures that do not rely upon their specific implementation. Via using formal strategies, designers can rapidly and effectively increase computer architectures; by lowering the want for manual debugging, designers can reduce time to market and growth performance. This paper proposes a formal strategies-based approach for the development of PC architectures and future hardware systems. The technique gives a unified framework for the automated verification of laptop architectures that mixes formal good judgment, hardware synthesis, and verification. It is finished by the usage of summary models of the designs to offer an executable form of the design that’s used for verification and validation. The method is then carried out in detail to the Intel IA-sixty-four architecture, an example of computer architecture. The formal models are used to derive hardware from the layout automatically and to check that the generated hardware satisfies the specs. The outcomes of the paintings suggest that formal techniques may be used to boost the improvement of computer architectures with improved accuracy and performance. Furthermore, the automation of the verification process makes it quicker and simpler to develop computer architectures, allowing engineers.