With the ever-evolving landscape of computer architecture, we are witnessing an influx of
novel intermediate representations (IRs) and instruction set architectures (ISAs). These …

Abstract Machine-readable specifications for the Armv8 instruction set architecture have
become publicly available as part of Arm's release processes, providing an official and …

Binary analysis is an important capability required for many security and software
engineering applications. Consequently, there are many binary analysis techniques and …

We introduce the Galois RISC-V Formal Tools (GRIFT)[1], a formal specification of the RISC-
V instruction set architecture written in the Haskell programming language. It consists of a …

Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) extend conventional ISAs with
capabilities that can enable fine-grained memory protection and scalable software …

The last few decades have seen the complexity of commercial hardware designs increase
by multiple orders of magnitude. This has driven corresponding increases in commercial tool …

Unlike other accelerators, FPGAs are capable of supporting cache coherency, thereby
turning them into a more powerful architectural option than just a peripheral accelerator …

One of the most important interfaces in a computer system is the interface between hardware
and software. This interface is the contract between the hardware designer and the …

We present a simple framework for specifying and proving facts about the input/output
behavior of ELF binary files on the x86-64 architecture. A strong emphasis has been placed …

Formal verification of a compiler offers the ultimate understanding of the behaviour of
compiled code: a mathematical proof relates the semantics of each output program to that of …