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A new formal verification approach for hardware-dependent embedded system software

Schmidt et al., 2013

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13132101605567912609
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Schmidt B
Villarraga C
Fehmel T
Bormann J
Wedler M
Nguyen M
Stoffel D
Kunz W
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IPSJ Transactions on System and LSI Design Methodology

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This paper describes a method to generate a computational model for formal verification of hardwaredependent software in embedded systems. The computational model of the combined HW/SW system is a program netlist (PN) consisting of instruction cells connected …
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