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1988 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Proof of Correctness of the Viper Microprocessor: The First Level
Author : Avra Cohn
Published in: VLSI Specification, Verification and Synthesis
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The Viper microprocessor designed at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) is one of the first commercially produced computers to have been developed using modern formal methods. Viper is specified in a sequence of decreasingly abstract levels. In this paper a mechanical proof of the equivalence of the first two of these levels is described. The proof was generated using a version of Robin Milner’s LCF system.