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This rough diamond presents a new domain-specific language (DSL) for producing detailed models of Instruction Set Architectures, such as ARM and x86. The language’s design and methodology is discussed and we propose future plans for this work. Feedback is sought from the wider theorem proving community in helping establish future directions for this project. A parser and interpreter for the DSL has been developed in Standard ML, with an ARMv7 model used as a case study.
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Fox, A. (2012). Directions in ISA Specification. In: Beringer, L., Felty, A. (eds) Interactive Theorem Proving. ITP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32347-8_23
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