Experience with embedding hardware description languages in HOL (1992)
| Venue: | Theorem Provers in Circuit Design |
| Citations: | 36 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Boulton92experiencewith,
author = {Richard Boulton and Andrew Gordon and Mike Gordon and John Harrison and John Herbert and John Van Tassel},
title = {Experience with embedding hardware description languages in HOL},
booktitle = {Theorem Provers in Circuit Design},
year = {1992},
pages = {129--156},
publisher = {North-Holland}
}
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Abstract The semantics of hardware description languages can be represented in higher order logic. This provides a formal definition that is suitable for machine processing. Experiments are in progress at Cambridge to see whether this method can be the basis of practical tools based on the HOL theorem-proving assistant. Three languages are being investigated: ELLA, Silage and VHDL. The approaches taken for these languages are compared and current progress on building semantically-based theorem-proving tools is discussed.
