Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency have begun nudging Defense Department managers to utilize idling DARPA cybersecurity tools meant to preempt hacks and accidents in critical ...

Formal methods are a suite of mathematically grounded techniques that underpin the design, specification, and verification of programming languages and software systems. They involve the use of ...

Safety and reliability have moved to the top of the list of critical criteria in software development. There are many ways to achieve improved safety and reliability, and one of the best is to employ ...

A new technical paper titled “HyPFuzz: Formal-Assisted Processor Fuzzing” was published by researchers at Texas A&M University and Technische Universität Darmstadt. “Recent research has shown that ...

A laptop computer runs desktop configuration software at the 60th Communications Squadron computer warehouse at Travis Air Force Base, California, Sept. 11, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch) ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Formal verification is a valuable adjunct to simulation, but not a replacement for it, according to panelists at the Design Automation Conference here Thursday (June 5). User ...

Editor's note: This survey of formal property checking and equivalence checking tools was undertaken by Lars Philipson, professor at Lunds Tekniska Hogskola university in Lund, Sweden. It was ...

It’s no secret that hardware is the new currency in the chip world. It’s no longer the case that the semiconductor industry is in the hands of traditional semiconductor giants; an increasing number of ...

Formal methods offer a mathematically rigorous framework for the specification, development and verification of programming languages and software systems. By leveraging techniques such as theorem ...