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Formal Design Verification for Correctness of Pipelined Microprocessors with Out-of-order Instruction Execution
Wanchai, Hong Kong January 18-January 21
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.1999.759989Asia and South Pacific Design Automat ...
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Takashi Takenaka, Osaka University, Japan
Junji Kitamichi, Osaka University, Japan
Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan
Kenichi Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan
In this paper, we propose a verification method for pipelined microprocessors with out-of-order execution. We define a class of pipelined microprocessors with out-of-order execution and give a sufficient condition that guarantees the correctness of implementation. Each microprocessor in this class has a pipeline stg{1},..., stg{n} such that the stages{c},..., stg{n} are so-called "in-order pipeline" and changes the execution order of instructions within the stages of stg{1},..., stg{c_1}. Using our method, we carried out the correctness proof of a practical 6-stage pipelined microprocessor that has a so-called scoreboard. We use a verifier having a decision procedure for Presburger sentences. The total CPU time spent in the proof was about 8 hours.
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Takashi Takenaka, Junji Kitamichi, Teruo Higashino, Kenichi Taniguchi, "Formal Design Verification for Correctness of Pipelined Microprocessors with Out-of-order Instruction Execution," asp-dac, pp.177, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99), 1999
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