We prove the equivalence between the ternary circuit model and a notion of intuitionistic stabilization bounds. The results are obtained as an application of the timing interpretation of intuitionistic propositional logic presented in [12]. We show that if one takes an intensional view of the ternary model then the delays that have been abstracted away can be completely recovered. Our intensional soundness and completeness theorems imply that the extracted delays are both correct and exact; thus we have developed a framework which unifies ternary simulation and functional timing analysis. Our focus is on the combinational behaviour of gate-level circuits with feedback.

Classical logic has so far been the logic of choice in formal hardware verification. This paper proposes the application of intuitionistic logic to the timing analysis of digital circuits. The intuitionistic setting serves two purposes. The model-theoretic properties are exploited to handle the second-order nature of bounded delays in a purely propositional setting without need to introduce explicit time and temporal operators. The proof theoretic properties are exploited to extract quantitative timing information and to reintroduce explicit time in a convenient and systematic way. We present a natural Kripke-style semantics for intuitionistic propositional logic, as a special case of a Kripke constraint model for Propositional Lax Logic [15], in which validity is validity up to stabilisation, and implication oe comes out as "boundedly gives rise to." We show that this semantics is equivalently characterised by a notion of realisability with stabilisation bounds as realisers...

Accurate evaluation of delays of combinatorial circuits is crucial in circuit verification and design. In this paper we present a logical approach to timing analysis which allows us to compute exact stabilization bounds while proving the correctness of the boolean behavior.