The FM 8501 microprocessor was invented as a generic microprocessor somewhat similar to a PDP-11. The principal idea of the FM 8501 effort was to see if it was possible to express the user-level specification and the design implementation using a formal logic, the Boyer-Moore logic; this approach permitted a complete mechanically checked proof that the FM 8501 implementation fully implemented its specification. The implementation model for the FM 8501 was inadequate for industrial hardware design but the effort was an important step in the evolution to the design verification methodology now employed by the author.
The original version of this monograph was submitted as a dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin under the advisorship of R. Boyer and J. Moore.

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Book Title: FM8501: A Verified Microprocessor
Editors: Warren A. Hunt
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57960-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-57960-1Published: 20 May 1994
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-48401-1Published: 30 June 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 342
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer System Implementation, Computer Engineering, Logic Design, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Arithmetic and Logic Structures

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