Industrial Application Of Theorem Proving To System Level Design

If formal proof is to be adopted as a practical par2 of the industrial design process, it is currently necessary to follow a suitably ‘light weight’ approach which can handle the complexity of commercial designs within the time scheduled for the design. This requires concentration on just those aspects of a design which are crucial to correct operation ye t are likely to cause design problems using traditional techniques. In this paper we study some of these aspects, namely ones connected with flow control and communication, and analyse how best to deal with them using formal proof.