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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Albert Koelmans, Dr Frank Burns, Professor David Kinniment
Transformational synthesis is the process of generating a hardware implementation from an initial behavioural description, by repeatedly applying transformations to the behavioural descriptions until a satisfactory implementation can be generated. It is essential to verify the correctness of the applied transformations if the final implementation is to conform to the initial specification. We have implemented a prototype interactive design tool that integrates the Boyer Moore theorem prover into the design process. We describe the reasons for using this particular theorem prover, its basic features, and demonstrate the operation of the design tool and its interaction with the theorem prover with an example.
Author(s): Koelmans AM, Burns FP, Kinniment DJ
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 1993
Pages: 16
Print publication date: 01/10/1993
Source Publication Date: October 1993
Report Number: 426
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/426.pdf
