A refinement calculus for the synthesis of verified hardware descriptions in VHDL

PT Breuer, CK Delgado, AL Marin… - ACM Transactions on …, 1997 - dl.acm.org
… is closely related to a Hoare-style programming logic for VHDL and real-time systems in …
of VHDL are described. The programming logic and the associated refinement calculus are …

A refinement calculus for VHDL

PT Breuer, NM Madrid, CD Kloos… - … with EURO-VHDL' …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This article describes a refinement method for VHDL. It is intended to produce behavioural
code that is “correct by construction”, departing from a nonbehavioural specification. It is a …

A formal method for specification and refinement of real-time systems

PT Breuer, NM Madrid, L Sánchez… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… code statements of VHDL gives a specification and a refinement calculus for real-time …
obtained constructively via the refinement calculus. The existence of a refinement path from a pure …

VHDL/S—integrating statecharts, timing diagrams, and VHDL

J Helbig, R Schlör, W Damm, G Döhmen… - Microprocessing and …, 1993 - Elsevier
… process calculus, from which behaviourally equivalent VHDL code is finally generated,
possibly after some interactive transformation steps. In the verification path of the project, timing …

[PDF][PDF] VHDL modelling of a fuzzy co-processor architecture

R Raychev, A Mtibaa, M Abid - System, 2005 - Citeseer
… The paper presents a VHDL modelling approach for synthesis of a possible architecture for
… The former is a fuzzy calculus processor. The whole architecture is modeled as two VHDL

[PDF][PDF] Reasoning about VHDL and VHDL-AMS using denotational semantics

PT Breuer, NM Madrid, JP Bowen, R France… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - dl.acm.org
… al. for unit delay VHDL, as presented in [6] in functional style, later recast as relational
semantics with a complete axiomatic semantics and refinement calculus in [1, 2, 3]. In [2], time was …

An executable formal model of the vhdl in isabelle/hol

W Khan, Z Hou, D Sanan, J Nebhen, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
VHDL, we define a formal model of the VHDL language in Isabelle/HOL. Our model targets
the functional part of VHDL designs … [20] proposed a refinement calculus for VHDL, effectively …

The use of B to specify, design and verify hardware

W Ifill, I Sorensen, S Schneider - High integrity software, 2001 - Springer
… A different approach to VHDL/ AMN refinement is … VHDL. Future work aims are to produce
a complete formal ASP and emulator and work on research to extend the refinement calculus

[PDF][PDF] VHDL for Synchronous Action Systems

T Seceleanu - Proc. of The International HDL Conference and …, 1999 - Citeseer
… The synchronous action systems are part of the formal system design using refinement
calculus derivations. A visual tool for describing action systems (synchronous or asynchronous) is …

Use of VHDL within a system level design flow

T Hadlich - Proceedings VHDL International Users' Forum. Fall …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and our understanding of the VHDL subset, that our VHDL synthesizer is using. To support
the translation of a formally defined model to VHDL, it would be useful if VHDL would have a …