Asynchronous monitors synthesis from temporal assertions for the robust observation of synchronous circuits

With the advent of complex integrated systems, the assertion based verification(ABV) has emerged as a solution for the semi-formal circuits verification. The ABV is used to validate that a circuit satisfies a property(or assertion). Previous work has shown that it is possible to synthesize these properties in the form of hardware monitors. These can then be embeddded permanantly on a circuit so that they provide monitoring task. With a goal of security and surveillance, the use of such monitors is a plus. Nevertheless, they are as sensitive as the monitored circuits to environmental degradation(voltage, temperature, age, ...). To reduce the risk of failure in monitors, originally designed as synchronous circuits, an asynchronous variant(quasi-delay insensitive) is proposed in this thesis. This work is part of the ANR project SFINCS(Thales, Dolphin Integration, TIMA) and led to the definition of a method for synthesizing asynchronous hardware monitors leveraging the robustness and modularity of asynchronous implementations. The studies focus primarily on the design of a library of basic asynchronous monitors and an ad hoc method of interconnection to build complex monitors. To ensure the robustness of these monitors, a study was conducted using formal verification tool RAT. In particular it was proved that the connection of an asynchronous monitor with a synchronous circuit(to watch) was particularly tricky because the timing assumptions of synchronous circuit impact the asynchronous monitor. It was therefore proposed to introduce a devicet, called "clock stretching", for controlling the clock of the synchronous circuit and relax synchronous timing assumptions that are applied to the asynchronous monitor.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00986690
Author Porcher, Alexandre
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 5, 2026, 12:16 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2026, 12:16 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2012GRENT004
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contributor Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés (TIMA) ; Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Porcher, Alexandre
date 2012-05-03T00:00:00
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