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Introduction to Modeling for Formal Verification

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Introduction to Modeling for Formal Verification

This course is part of Fundamentals of Model Checking Specialization

Instructor: Hao Zheng

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

11 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Explain functional verification and model checking, including their benefits and drawbacks
Describe transition systems and how they represent behavior of hardware and software
Use program graphs to describe systems with data-dependent control
Describe communication models for system composition, including concurrency, shared variables, handshake, and synchronous parallelism.

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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.

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This module introduces basic concepts of functional verification and model checking. It demonstrates the importance of verification via some examples, outlines the challenges, and reviews pros and cons of model checking with respect to other verification methods.

What's included

7 videos8 readings3 assignments

7 videosTotal 53 minutes

Motivating Examples7 minutes
High Profile Previous Bugs and Their Impacts10 minutes
Overview of Functional Verification5 minutes
Techniques for Functional Verification10 minutes
Overview of Formal Verification and Model Checking7 minutes
Elements of Model Checking6 minutes
Challenge to Model Checking: State Space Explosion6 minutes

8 readingsTotal 151 minutes

Course Updates and Accessibility Support1 minute
Non-Credit Students: Welcome and Where to Find Help10 minutes
Principles of Model Checking - Chapter 1, Introduction - Part 115 minutes
Hardware and Software Bugs - Wikipedia20 minutes
Functional Verification30 minutes
Principles of Model Checking - Chapter 1, Introduction - Part 215 minutes
Principles of Model Checking - Section 1.1, 1.230 minutes
Formal Verification and Model Checking - Wikipedia30 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 30 minutes

Motivation of Verification Quiz10 minutes
Overview of Verification Quiz10 minutes
Formal Verification and Model Checking Quiz10 minutes

This module introduces transition systems, a basic modeling formalism for representing behavior of hardware and software that is suitable for automated analysis. The syntax and semantics of transition systems are explained, and how sequential circuits can be represented as transition systems is described. Next, program graphs as a formalism to model software are introduced. Syntax of program graphs is described, and semantic interpretation using transition systems is explained.

What's included

10 videos3 readings3 assignments

10 videosTotal 110 minutes

Propositional Logic14 minutes
Predicate Logic9 minutes
Set Theory11 minutes
Transition Systems: Definitions13 minutes
Deterministic vs Non-Deterministic Systems8 minutes
Executions6 minutes
Modeling Sequential Circuits12 minutes
Program Graphs: Definitions10 minutes
Program Graphs: Examples16 minutes
From Program Graphs to Transition Systems12 minutes

3 readingsTotal 135 minutes

Foundations of Logic and Set Theory - Key Concepts and Applications60 minutes
Principles of Model Checking - Section 2.1, Page 19-2945 minutes
Principles of Model Checking - Section 2.1, (Page 29-34)30 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 65 minutes

Background Quiz30 minutes
Transition Systems Quiz20 minutes
Program Graphs Quiz15 minutes

This module introduces some modeling formalisms capturing different types of system compositions. Particularly, interleaving of concurrent transition systems, compositions of systems communicating via shared variables or handshaking are explained. Additionally, synchronous parallelism is described for composing synchronous circuit composition.