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This paper investigates three significant questions of Verilog’s operational semantics: soundness, completeness and non-redundancy. Our understanding for these three questions is denotational-based. We provide an operational semantics for Verilog and prove that our operational semantics is sound, complete and non-redundant.
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Huibiao, Z., Bowen, J.P., Jifeng, H. (2002). Soundness, Completeness and Non-redundancy of Operational Semantics for Verilog Based on Denotational Semantics. In: George, C., Miao, H. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36103-0_61
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