Operational Semantics Based Formal Symbolic Simulation [chapter]

K.G.W. Goossens
1993 Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and its Applications  
This paper describes the development of progressively more powerful and abstract hardware simulators. A small computer hardware design and description language picoella is then introduced, followed by its formal semantics. Using a number of small examples, we will then show the how this formal semantics may be used within a proof system as a sophisticated simulation tool. Examples include some full adders, a general N bit adder, and two parity checkers.
doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-89880-7.50037-1 fatcat:nozribtajbc23pyobaf3mhjhiq