University of Colorado Boulder

Introduction to Modeling for Formal Verification

University of Colorado Boulder

Introduction to Modeling for Formal Verification

This course is part of Fundamentals of Model Checking Specialization

Hao Zheng

Instructor: Hao Zheng

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Beginner level

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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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There are 3 modules in this course

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.

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7 videos8 readings3 assignments

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

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.

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10 videos4 readings4 assignments

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Hao Zheng
University of Colorado Boulder
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