Title
Formal system-level design space exploration
Abstract
DIPLODOCUS is a UML profile intended for the modeling and the formal verification of real-time and embedded applications commonly executed on complex Systems-on-Chip. DIPLODOCUS implements the Y-chart approach, that is, application and HW architecture e.g., CPUs, bus, memories are first described independently and are subsequently related to each other in a mapping stage. Abstract tasks and communication primitives are therefore mapped onto platform elements like buses and CPUs. DIPLODOCUS endows all models with a formal semantics, thereby paving the way for formal proofs both before and after mapping. More concretely, application, architecture, and mapping models can be edited in TTool - an open-source toolkit - using UML diagrams. Then, pre-mapping or post-mapping UML models may be automatically transformed into a LOTOS-based representation. This specification is in turn amenable to model-checking techniques to evaluate properties of the system, for example, safety, schedulability, and performance properties. A smart card system serves as case study to illustrate the formal verification capabilities of DIPLODOCUS. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1002/cpe.2802
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
Keywords
DocType
Volume
system level design,complex system,chip,formal verification,formal specification,software specification,logic design,system on chip,model checking
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
2
1532-0626
978-1-4244-7068-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Knorreck1332.72
Ludovic Apvrille213622.23
Renaud Pacalet326024.51