Recently, contract-based design has been proposed as an “orthogonal” approach that
complements system design methodologies proposed so far to cope with the complexity of …

This paper addresses the design of reactive real-time embedded systems. Such systems are
often heterogeneous in implementation technologies and design styles, for example by …

With asynchronous circuit design becoming a powerful tool in the development of new
digital systems, circuit designers are expected to have asynchronous design skills and be …

Test und Validierung spielen bei Echtzeitsystemen eine zentrale Rolle: Auf die
Spezifikationen, die der Hersteller angibt, muss sich der Kunde hier in besonders hohem …

Temporal logic model checking is an automatic technique for verifying finite-state concurrent
systems. Specifications are expressed in a propositional temporal logic, and the concurrent …

Designers generally implement embedded controllers for reactive real-time applications as
mixed software-hardware systems. In our formal methodology for specifying, modeling …

We present a framework for model checking concurrent software systems which
incorporates both states and events. Contrary to other state/event approaches, our work also …

This paper describes a newdata structure, difference decision diagrams (DDDs), for
representing a Boolean logic over inequalities of the form xy≤ c where the variables are …

Because of the difficulty of adequately simulating large digital designs, there has been a
recent surge of interest in formal verification, in which a mathematical model of the design is …

During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and
development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions …