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A Typing Discipline for Hardware Interfaces (Artifact)
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Jan de Muijnck-Hughes 
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Wim Vanderbauwhede
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Special Issue of the 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)
Volume: DARTS, Volume 5 (ECOOP 2019)
Conference: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP)
Journal: Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS) - License:
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- Publication Date: 2019-07-12
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Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Wim Vanderbauwhede. A Typing Discipline for Hardware Interfaces (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 14:1-14:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.5.2.14
https://doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.5.2.14
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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 a separation of concerns, such 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 respective to 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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- Theory of computation → Type theory
- Hardware → System on a chip
- Software and its engineering → System description languages
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- System-on-a-Chip
- AXI
- Dependent Types
- Substructural Typing
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