@inproceedings{b81910ed7e20476e893dbe057c753e2d,
title = "Ilang: a modeling and verification platform for SoCs using instruction-level abstractions",
abstract = "We present ILAng, a platform for modeling and verification of systems-on-chip (SoCs) using Instruction-Level Abstractions (ILA). The ILA formal model targeting the hardware-software interface enables a clean separation of concerns between software and hardware through a unified model for heterogeneous processors and accelerators. Top-down it provides a specification for functional verification of hardware, and bottom-up it provides an abstraction for software/hardware co-verification. ILAng provides a programming interface for (i) constructing ILA models (ii) synthesizing ILA models from templates using program synthesis techniques (iii) verifying properties on ILA models (iv) behavioral equivalence checking between different ILA models, and between an ILA specification and an implementation. It also provides for translating models and properties into various languages (e.g., Verilog and SMT LIB2) for different verification settings and use of third-party verification tools. This paper demonstrates selected capabilities of the platform through case studies. Data or code related to this paper is available at: [9].",
author = "Huang, {Bo Yuan} and Hongce Zhang and Aarti Gupta and Sharad Malik",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Applications Driving Architectures (ADA) Research Center, a JUMP Center co-sponsored by SRC and DARPA. This research is also funded in part by NSF award number 1628926, XPS: FULL: Hardware Software Abstractions: Addressing Specification and Verification Gaps in Accelerator-Oriented Parallelism, and the DARPA POSH Program Project: Upscale: Scaling up formal tools for POSH Open Source Hardware.; 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems conference series, TACAS 2019 held as part of the 22nd European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019 ; Conference date: 06-04-2019 Through 11-04-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-17462-0_21",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030174613",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "351--357",
editor = "Tom{\'a}{\v s} Vojnar and Lijun Zhang",
booktitle = "Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - 25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}