Publications de Andrew James Becker

Satisfiability-Based Methods for Digital Circuit Design, Debug, and Optimization

Designing digital circuits well is notoriously difficult. This difficulty stems in part from the very many degrees of freedom inherent in circuit design, typically coupled with the need to satisfy various constraints. In this thesis, we demonstrate how for ...

EPFL2018

Arbitrary Precision and Complexity Tradeoffs for Gate-Level Information Flow Tracking

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Andrew James Becker, Ryan Charles Kastner, Wei Hu

2017

Imprecise Security: Quality and Complexity Tradeoffs for Hardware Information Flow Tracking

Paolo Ienne, Andrew James Becker, Ryan Charles Kastner, Wei Hu

Secure hardware design is a challenging task that goes far beyond ensuring functional correctness. Important design properties such as non-interference cannot be verified on functional circuit models due to the lack of essential information (e.g., sensitiv ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

FudgeFactor: Syntax-Guided Synthesis for Accurate RTL Error Localization and Correction

Paolo Ienne, Barbara Jobstmann, David Novo Bruna, Andrew James Becker, Mohsen A A Ewaida

Functional verification occupies a significant amount of the digital circuit design cycle. In this paper, we present a novel approach to improve circuit debugging which not only localizes errors with high confidence, but can also provide semantically-meani ...

Springer2015