@inproceedings{6441dba129da476186df60f8c7dcf002,
title = "A formalisation of XMAS",
abstract = "Communication fabrics play a key role in the correctness and performance of modern multi-core processors and systems-on-chip. To enable formal verification, a recent trend is to use high-level micro-architectural models to capture designers' intent about the communication and processing of messages. Intel proposed the xMAS language to support the formal definition of executable specifications of micro-architectures. We formalise the semantics of xMAS in ACL2. Our formalisation represents the computation of the values of all wires of a design. Our main function computes a set of possible routing targets for each message and whether a message can make progress according to the current network state. We prove several properties on the semantics, including termination, non-emptiness of routing, and correctness of progress conditions. Our current effort focuses on a basic subset of the entire xMAS language, which includes queues, functions, and switches.",
author = "\{Gastel, van\}, B. and J. Schmaltz",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.4204/EPTCS.114.9",
language = "English",
series = "Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science",
publisher = "EPTCS",
pages = "111--126",
editor = "R. Gamboa and J. Davis",
booktitle = "Proceedings International Workshop on the ACL2 Theorem Prover and its Applications (ACL2 2013, Laramie WY, USA, May 30-31, 2013)",
}