ylfink@water.waterloo.edu (ylfink) (11/01/88)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SEMINAR ACTIVITIES ASYNCHRONOUS CIRCUITS SEMINAR - Thursday, November 3, 1988 Dr. David Dill, Stanford University, California, will speak on ``Formal Specification and Modeling of Self- Timed Queue Circuits''. TIME: 3:00 PM PLEASE NOTE TIME ROOM: DC 1304 ABSTRACT By considering self-timed queue circuits, we will highlight theoretical and practical issues in the formal modeling, specification, and verification of speed-independent circuits. The user-level specifications are petri nets, which are given a deeper semantics based on sets of sequences (called traces). The examples can be worked automatically. Both the advantages and limitations of our approach will be discussed. This is joint work with Robert Sproull and Steven Nowick.