This course introduces the basic concepts of functional verification and model checking, highlighting their importance in modern system designs. It explains different modeling formalisms for representing the behavior of hardware and software, which are either suitable for automated analysis or can represent data-dependent controls that are common in computing system designs. Additionally, it describes system compositions with respect to different communication models.
Temporal Logic Model Checking
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45 hours to complete
3 weeks at 15 hours a week
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Identify linear time behavior and specify linear time properties using linear time logic (LTL)
Describe basic concepts of LTL model checking
Specify properties using computation tree logic (CTL)
Describe basic concepts of CTL model checking and its symbolic version
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There are 4 modules in this course
This module introduces concepts of linear-time interpretation of transition systems, and shows how to specify various types of properties on the linear-time behavior.
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13 videos3 readings3 assignments
This module introduces linear-time logic (LTL) for specifying linear-time properties and framework for deciding truth of LTL formulas with respect to transition systems.
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26 videos3 readings3 assignments
This module introduces computation tree logic (CTL) for specifying properties and model checking algorithms for deciding truth of CTL formulas with respect to transition systems.
What's included
13 videos3 readings3 assignments
This module introduces basic concepts of symbolic model checking, how transition systems can be encoded as switch functions, mode checking algorithms based on switch functions, and BDDs as a compact representation of switch functions.
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16 videos3 readings2 assignments1 peer review
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