DIT780 TDA956, LP4, VT2011

Hardware Description and Verification

2011 Schedule

Note: Schedule under construction. Slides may be updated during the course (and this will be clearly marked).

	Tudsday 13:15-15:00 in ES51	Wednesday 10:00-11:45 in ES51	Friday 10:00-11:45 in ES51
1. 21/3-25/3	Course Introduction by MS Course overview [2011 slides: pdf, pdf 2 per page] Discussion with those students who do not already know VHDL [2011 Slides: pdf Background reading: the paper by Schubert and the paper by Paruthi.	Intro. to industrial formal verification using JasperGold by MAB [2011 Slides: pdf]	by MS Formal hardware verification (some key ideas) (will probably overflow into tues. week 3) [2011 Slides: pdf] Background reading: the paper by Hu and the paper by Seger. See also Bryant's 1992 paper on links page.
2. 28/3-1/4	by MS Specifying circuit properties, I [2011 Slides I: pdf] Specifying circuit properties, II [2011 Slides II: pdf]	by MS PSL (continued) [2011 Slides: pdf]	No Lecture
3. 4/4-8/4	by MS Model Checking 1 [2011 Slides: pdf]	by MS Model Checking 2 [2011 Slides: pdf] A simple model checker in Haskell	by KC Bounded Model Checking and safety properties [2008 slides: pdf, pdf 2 per page] Our paper on SAT-solving in practice The BMC Journal paper PSL semantics paper The MiniSat paper Lab Deadline I (Friday April 8, 23:59)
4. 11/4-15/4	No lecture	No lecture	by MS Temporal Induction [2011 Slides: pdf] Induction paper (SSS00) Temporal induction + SAT paper Exam Deadline I (friday April 15, 23:59)
18/4-	Easter Holiday
25/4-	Re-sit examination days Easter
5. 2/5-6/5	by MS Hardware Description in Functional Languages Lava 1: Introduction [2011 Slides] Example file: LavaIntro.hs See also the Lava Tutorial (PDF)	by MS Lava 2 [2010 Slides] Example file: Lava2.hs	by MS Lava 3 [2010 Slides] Example file: Lava3.hs Hawk slides (see John Matthew's publications for more info)
6. 9/5-13/5	by MS Lava 4 (relevant to take home exam) [2010 Slides] Example file: Lava4.hs	by SS Haskell to hardware	No lecture Lab Deadline II (friday May 13, 23:59)
7. 16/5-20/5	Discussion & exam prep.	by LA Bluespec	No lecture Exam Deadline II (friday May 20, 23:59)

Lecturers:

MS: Mary Sheeran
MAB: Magnus Björk from Jasper Design Automation
KC: Koen Lindström Claessen
SS: Satnam Singh from Microsoft Research in Cambridge
LA: Lennart Augustsson (original developer of Bluespec). See the Bluespec Inc. home page for information about Bluespec and its applications.

Course Assistant:

EA: Emil Axelsson

Additional information:

The timeedit schedule also shows the supervised lab sessions on friday mornings. You are also expected to use the labs unsupervised or log in remotely.

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MS, March 2011