Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods [electronic resource] : 12th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference, CHARME 2003, L’Aquila, Italy, October 21-24, 2003. Proceedings / edited by Daniel Geist, Enrico Tronci.

Invited Talks -- What Is beyond the RTL Horizon for Microprocessor and System Design? -- The Charme of Abstract Entities -- Tutorial -- The PSL/Sugar Specification Language A Language for all Seasons -- Software Verification -- Finding Regularity: Describing and Analysing Circuits That Are Not Quite Regular -- Predicate Abstraction with Minimum Predicates -- Efficient Symbolic Model Checking of Software Using Partial Disjunctive Partitioning -- Processor Verification -- Instantiating Uninterpreted Functional Units and Memory System: Functional Verification of the VAMP -- A Hazards-Based Correctness Statement for Pipelined Circuits -- Analyzing the Intel Itanium Memory Ordering Rules Using Logic Programming and SAT -- Automata Based Methods -- On Complementing Nondeterministic Büchi Automata -- Coverage Metrics for Formal Verification -- “More Deterministic” vs. “Smaller” Büchi Automata for Efficient LTL Model Checking -- Short Papers 1 -- An Optimized Symbolic Bounded Model Checking Engine -- Constrained Symbolic Simulation with Mathematica and ACL2 -- Semi-formal Verification of Memory Systems by Symbolic Simulation -- CTL May Be Ambiguous When Model Checking Moore Machines -- Specification Methods -- Reasoning about GSTE Assertion Graphs -- Towards Diagrammability and Efficiency in Event Sequence Languages -- Executing the Formal Semantics of the Accellera Property Specification Language by Mechanised Theorem Proving -- Protocol Verification -- On Combining Symmetry Reduction and Symbolic Representation for Efficient Model Checking -- On the Correctness of an Intrusion-Tolerant Group Communication Protocol -- Exact and Efficient Verification of Parameterized Cache Coherence Protocols -- Short Papers 2 -- Design and Implementation of an Abstract Interpreter for VHDL -- A Programming Language Based Analysis of Operand Forwarding -- Integrating RAM and Disk Based Verification within the Mur? Verifier -- Design and Verification of CoreConnectTM IP Using Esterel -- Theorem Proving -- Inductive Assertions and Operational Semantics -- A Compositional Theory of Refinement for Branching Time -- Linear and Nonlinear Arithmetic in ACL2 -- Bounded Model Checking -- Efficient Distributed SAT and SAT-Based Distributed Bounded Model Checking -- Convergence Testing in Term-Level Bounded Model Checking -- The ROBDD Size of Simple CNF Formulas -- Model Checking and Application -- Efficient Hybrid Reachability Analysis for Asynchronous Concurrent Systems -- Finite Horizon Analysis of Markov Chains with the Mur? Verifier -- Improved Symbolic Verification Using Partitioning Techniques.