A typing discipline for hardware interfaces

de Muijnck-Hughes, Jan and Vanderbauwhede, Wim; Donaldson, Alastair F., ed. (2019) A typing discipline for hardware interfaces. In: 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2019. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs . Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, GBR. ISBN 9783959771115 (https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.6)

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Abstract

Modern Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) are constructed by composition of IP (Intellectual Property) Cores with the communication between these IP Cores being governed by well described interaction protocols. However, there is a disconnect between the machine readable specification of these protocols and the verification of their implementation in known hardware description languages. Although tools can be written to address such separation of concerns, the tooling is often hand written and used to check hardware designs a posteriori. We have developed a dependent type-system and proof-of-concept modelling language to reason about the physical structure of hardware interfaces using user provided descriptions. Our type-system provides correct-by-construction guarantees that the interfaces on an IP Core will be well-typed if they adhere to a specified standard.

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de Muijnck-Hughes, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2185-8543 and Vanderbauwhede, Wim; Donaldson, Alastair F.
  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:87263
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    19 July 2019
    Published
    29 April 2019
    Accepted
    Notes:Funding Information: Funding This work is part of Border Patrol: Improving Smart Device Security through Type-Aware Systems Design (EP/N028201/1) and has been sponsored by an EPSRC funding call on Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security in the Digital Economy. Funding Information: This work is part of Border Patrol: Improving Smart Device Security through Type-Aware Systems Design (EP/N028201/1) and has been sponsored by an EPSRC funding call on Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security in the Digital Economy. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for commenting on the paper, and also various members of Scottish Programming Language Community (SPLS) for their helpful comments on early versions of the work. Publisher Copyright: © Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Wim Vanderbauwhede.
    Subjects:Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:09 Nov 2023 13:31
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 15:33
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/87263
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